Chapter 12: Introduction to “Blank Spots” by Nadia Lichtig

Speaker 0 00:00:00 Chapter 12 introduction to blank spots by Nadia elliptic. This chapter introduces the large installation by Nadia elliptic, call blank spots. It is an installation that includes light and sound lasting 28 minutes. Curator, Sonny Kerr's commentary about the artwork can be found in chapter 15 or as a printed label on the wall. Speaker 1 00:00:25 As you move towards the stop, perhaps you notice the soundscape of breathing or a chorus of voices. Welcome to Nadia Lytics, multimedia installation blank spots. Right now you're positioned close to a low square pedestal in the center of the room. If you recall, we described the gallery as in the shape of a sideways L the part of the gallery where lick takes artworks are located is in the small arm of the L. But it feels like the biggest room because it has a two-story high ceiling. The room is almost 15 meters long, and seven meters wide blank spots is on the floor in front of you. It is composed of six squares of cream colored canvas laid out to form a large rectangle. Each square is about two by two meters. So the entire work is huge. Over three by five meters, the squares of canvas are displayed on an ankle height would platform with six spotlights hanging overhead, one above each square. Speaker 1 00:01:24 It has the feeling of a stage in the theater, the spotlights Castlight directly on the squares of canvas intermittently illuminating several at a time softly blinking on and off in sync with the breathing and singing each square fabric has a different pattern though. The color scheme is similar shades of brown, some darker, and some lighter two squares feature, a pattern made from lines of short dashes. These were done using a technique called Photosh French for rubbing. When you were a child, did you ever make a rubbing of a leaf using a crayon and a piece of paper? This is the same action. Nadia used though. She hasn't printed the pattern of the texture of a four, perhaps pebbles or small bricks using graphite on other squares. The markings are more random in size and look like blotches or creases in the fabric. Different hues of brown overlap on the cream color of the canvas. These are stains created by the artist who use the fabric and cleaning liquids to hand-wash force, but not just any force. The artists chose locations where crime has occurred in places like Berman and Berlin in Germany, axon provosts, and Montpellier and France and and posing in, in Poland, Speaker 0 00:02:40 Moved to the next stop on the tour. About 10 meters away, there will be a wall on your left and the low wood platform on your right play. Chapter 13, when you arrive at the stop.