Nadia Lichtig is an artist living and working in the South of France, where she is professor for painting, experiment, and sound at the Montpellier Academy of Arts (MOCO Esba). Lichtig's artistic practice is based on the collecting of voices and their visual and sonic interpretations.
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My name is Nadia Lichtig (pause) I and grew up between several countries and languages (extended pause) I studied linguistics in Munich and Berlin (pause) and sculpture at Academy of Fine Arts in Paris at Jean Luc Vilmouth’s studio (extended pause)
Subsequently (pause) I assisted Mike Kelley in Los Angeles (extended pause) I now live and work in the South of France (pause) where I teach painting at the MOCO in Montpellier (pause) an academy of Fine Arts (pause) attached to a museum and exhibition spaces (extended pause) and research amongst others at the University of Aix-Marseille (light clack of the tongue, extended pause)
As an artist (pause) I'm navigating between several mediums (pause) which I all consider (extended pause) indifferently as being (pause) painting (extended pause)
I want my works to instore a form of referencelessness (clack of the tongue, extended pause) and resistence (pause) toward (pause) categorization (extended pause)
Each of my series (pause) deal with making palpable inadequacy (pause) and insufficency (pause) of language (light clack of the tongue, extended pause)
The series develop in parallel (pause) over several years (pause) or decades (extended pause)
They shift from voice (pause) to photography (extended pause) to drawing (pause) to glass (pause) to prose poems (pause) to songs and vice versa etcetera (light clack of the tongue, extended pause) and (clack of the tongue, extended pause) all (extended pause) these forms are condensing into painting (extended pause)
Their content lies in the ambivalences (pause) the loss or the gain (extended pause) the unexpected (pause) that appears during these processes of translation (light clack of the tongue, extended pause)
Rather than finality (extended pause again) my research is calling for questions such as (pause) How through successive shiftings (pause) 'empty language' (rising intonation of the voice, extended pause) And (pause) how (pause) this thus creates 'voids' (pause) generating language in turn (rising intonation of the voice, extended pause)
Contact :
anne@anneplus.com