Absence of touch
Medium: Giclée Print on Hahnemühle German Etching
Dimensions (framed): 42cm x 59.4cm
Date: 2023
Price: Please contact the artist
Description: This print has been created from a still taken from a short film titled 'Absence of touch' produced for the artist collective Androtechene's 2021 digital exhibition 'Digital Self '. The film was created from a single still image, part of a series of portraits taken by photographer and long-term collaborator David Cook. This series examined intimacy and touch and its absence. The series was originally shown at the Riverside Studios gallery as part of their 'Deep Desires & Broken Dreams' gay film season in 2014. The artist has taken this image and has re-seen and 'remixed' the original image to create something new. This has been achieved through digital glitching and distortion to create short GIFS to edit/mix into a short film
Sakib Khan is a multidisciplinary artist and curator whose practice crosses the mediums of digital, textile and traditional drawing & collage, developing work which weaves these different strands together. He is also a member of the artist collective Androtechne.
As a queer neurodiverse person of South Asian heritage, themes of exploration are drawn from the artist's intersectional identity. These themes are conveyed across multiple mediums and revisited after periods of reflection and following technical discovery due to an ongoing fascination with material and process.
A Brighton’s Fashion Textile graduate, he has worked in styling, theatre and fashion. Moving into the visual arts space in 2014 by assisting sculptor and performance artist Andrew Logan in producing his 13th Alternative Miss World at Shakespeare's Globe and again in 2018. Sakib carved a niche assisting various artists, including ceramicist Kate Malone MBE, leather Pop-artisan duo Whitaker Malem, and creative polymath Bishi, who have all influenced his creative practice.
Alongside his work in the art space, he is involved in LGBTQ+ activism, primarily among the South Asian Community.
