N.Lichtig, Blank Spots, frottages (graphite, cleaning liquids and dust on canvas), approx. 160 x 150 cm and 160 x 170 cm each / theatre light / sound,  2017 — ongoing


 
Blank Spots is a series associated with traumatic historical events. Each of the rubbings is a sort of a cartography, concentrating the dust of trauma buried in the ground. 

From each canvas is extracted a drawing that becomes a score, then a musical composition.

Blank Spots (Reichsbahnbunker) are frottages that have been made in the streets around the Reichsbahnbunker, built in 1942 in the center of Berlin by war prisoners. They have been made in two different manners: by cleaning the surfaces of these grounds with cleaning liquids on canvas, and by imprinting the structures of these grounds on site with graphite on canvas.
Blank Spots (București) is a series of sidewalk rubbings of precise addresses, streets in the city of Bucharest (Romania), where the pogrom of January 21-23, 1941 took place. The rubbings were made by printing the structures of these pavements with graphite on canvas.


Blank Spots (Reichsbahnbunker) Choral performance for six voices, 2021, Belkin Gallery Vancouver. Realized in collaboration with the composers Antony Knight and Walker Williams and the Department of Music of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Light programming: Jürgen Kääriäinen. Soundmastering: Christian Bouyjou.
https://belkin.ubc.ca/events/concert-at-the-belkin-blank-spots-choral-performance/

Blank Spots (Bucuresti) Choral performance for two voices, Bucarest, Anca Poterasu Gallery, 2021

Blank SpotsChoral performance can be listened to here:https://nadialichtig.bandcamp.com/album/blank-spots


2023 in:
DESSIN 8, Chapelle du Quartier Haut, Sète, France
Entres les lignes / Zwischen den Linien, Galerie Lligat, Perpignan, France

2022 in:
Drift, Art and Dark Matter, curated by Sunny Kerr, Justina M.Barnicke Gallery, Art Museum, Toronto, Canada
Histoires de Silences, Galerie Anne+, Paris, France
The Body of Drawing, Maison de Heidelberg, Montpellier, curated by Hanna Hennenkemper & Ludwig Seyfath
Drift, Art and Dark Matter, curated by Sunny Kerr, Carlton University Art Gallery (CUAG), Ottawa, Canada

2021 in:
Muj Utek, Zamek, Poznan, Poland, curated by Jagna Domzalska.
Image fantôme, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucarest, Romania, curated by Cristina Stoenescu.
Drift: Art and Dark Matter, Belkin Gallery, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Sunny Kerr.
Drift: Art and Dark Matter, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Canada, curated by Sunny Kerr.

2019 in:
Schwankhalle, Bremen, Germany
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany

2017 in:
Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany