Nadia Lichtig’s material is language. Based on the collection of voices, the artist's series are investigating language and its insufficiencies in the form of visual and aural compositions. Nadia Lichtig (b. 1973) currently lives and works in Paris & Montpellier, South of France.
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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) and now live and work in the South of France (pause) where I teach at the MOCO in Montpellier (pause) an academy of Fine Arts (pause) attached to a museum (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 using language as material in order to compose (pause) both visually (pause) and soundwise (clack of the tongue, extended pause) I'm interested in the sound of words (pause) how they are built (pause) as well as in the impossibility of their exact translation (extended pause) I want my work to instore a form of referencelessness (extended pause) and resistence (pause) toward categorization (extended pause) Stemming from voices (extended pause) my compositions take the form of painting (pause) or photography (pause) or concerts (light clack of the tongue, extended pause) The series shift from voice (pause) to photography (extended pause) to painting (pause) to performance (pause) and back (light clack of the tongue, 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 (extended pause) this thus creates 'voids' (pause) generating language in turn (rising intonation of the voice, extended pause)
Contact :
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CV :
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