Satellites 2021-05-26 | 13:14:00
2021
cotton fabric, fleece, yarn
190 x 290 cm
The textile work Satellites 2021-05-26 | 13:14:00 plays with the idea of an inside and outside of the sky – here there seems to be a cloudy side and a clear side, but both are equally pierced by small crosses. These embroideries mark satellites. Again, the sky is seen above the Universumstrasse in Vienna on 26 May 2021 at 1:14 pm. What the daytime sky obscures is not only the total lunar eclipse, which takes place exactly at this time, but also the countless devices flying in space – behind the sky.
Signs 2021-05-26 | 13:14:00
2021
acrylic glass, print
103 x 57,6 cm
In the work Signs 2021-05-26 | 13:14:00 Licht traces a total of 32 star charts from various cultures with the help of a digital planetarium. In doing so, she overlays historical and geographical axes, for these mappings range from the Babylonian constellation culture (12th century BC) to the constellations of the Tupi-Guarani to ancient Chinese and Siberian star maps. The overlay forms a network of lines that spans a certain section of the sky like a net: it is the sky above the Universumstrasse, 1200 Vienna (N 48° 14'13.93'' E 16° 22'37.56'') on 26 May 2021 at 1:14 pm.
skyscanner I
2021
wooden frame, glass, mirror foil, photography
42 x 62 cm
altas coeli pieces
2020
2 of 5 cyanotypes
dimensions variable
The altas coeli pieces are cyanotypes of the famous star atlas Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso1950.0 by Antonín Bečvář. It was produced in Slovakia between 1947 and 1948 and was unique at the time of its publication because its 16 hand-drawn star charts depicted the entire sky visible with an 8-inch telescope, including all non-stellar objects (star clusters, galaxies, etc.).
(w)hole sky I
2019
paper, cyanotype
29 x 21cm
Holes in the sky are the witnesses of dirty presentation. Google knows the places where the sky can not be conclusively put together and opens up space for imagination.
the eye of the beholder
2019
solarium, mirror, film
180 x 245 x 80 cm
The sky/heaven is a projection screen, a mirror, a free space and vital atmosphere, but also a sign of the finite, a witness to human destructiveness and thus an immanent danger from above: A sky without sun is unthinkable for life just as burned skin.
19 g oxygen
2019
birthday candles, acrylic glass
36,5 x 44 x 47 cm
V_{cube} = 0.355m*0.43m*0.46m = 0.070219m^3 = 70,219 l
V_{O2} = 0.21*V_{cube} = 0.21*70.219 l = 14,746 l
m_{O2} = V_{O2} * 31,9988 g/ mol / (24,055 l/mol) = 14,746*31,9988/24,055 l*g*mol/(mol*l) = 19.616 g
burned by 19 g candles = space without oxygen
volcanoes II (Caspar David Friedrich)
2018
business cards
about 120 x 400 x 70 cm
Each stack shows the average color of a painted horizon by Caspar David Friedrich. During his lifetime, three volcanoes erupted in the world and colored the sky.
Satellites 2021-05-26 | 13:14:00
2021
cotton fabric, fleece, yarn
190 x 290 cm
The textile work Satellites 2021-05-26 | 13:14:00 plays with the idea of an inside and outside of the sky – here there seems to be a cloudy side and a clear side, but both are equally pierced by small crosses. These embroideries mark satellites. Again, the sky is seen above the Universumstrasse in Vienna on 26 May 2021 at 1:14 pm. What the daytime sky obscures is not only the total lunar eclipse, which takes place exactly at this time, but also the countless devices flying in space – behind the sky.
Signs 2021-05-26 | 13:14:00
2021
acrylic glass, print
103 x 57,6 cm
In the work Signs 2021-05-26 | 13:14:00 Licht traces a total of 32 star charts from various cultures with the help of a digital planetarium. In doing so, she overlays historical and geographical axes, for these mappings range from the Babylonian constellation culture (12th century BC) to the constellations of the Tupi-Guarani to ancient Chinese and Siberian star maps. The overlay forms a network of lines that spans a certain section of the sky like a net: it is the sky above the Universumstrasse, 1200 Vienna (N 48° 14'13.93'' E 16° 22'37.56'') on 26 May 2021 at 1:14 pm.
skyscanner I
2021
wooden frame, glass, mirror foil, photography
42 x 62 cm
altas coeli pieces
2020
2 of 5 cyanotypes
dimensions variable
The altas coeli pieces are cyanotypes of the famous star atlas Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso1950.0 by Antonín Bečvář. It was produced in Slovakia between 1947 and 1948 and was unique at the time of its publication because its 16 hand-drawn star charts depicted the entire sky visible with an 8-inch telescope, including all non-stellar objects (star clusters, galaxies, etc.).
(w)hole sky I
2019
paper, cyanotype
29 x 21cm
Holes in the sky are the witnesses of dirty presentation. Google knows the places where the sky can not be conclusively put together and opens up space for imagination.
the eye of the beholder
2019
solarium, mirror, film
180 x 245 x 80 cm
The sky/heaven is a projection screen, a mirror, a free space and vital atmosphere, but also a sign of the finite, a witness to human destructiveness and thus an immanent danger from above: A sky without sun is unthinkable for life just as burned skin.
19 g oxygen
2019
birthday candles, acrylic glass
36,5 x 44 x 47 cm
V_{cube} = 0.355m*0.43m*0.46m = 0.070219m^3 = 70,219 l
V_{O2} = 0.21*V_{cube} = 0.21*70.219 l = 14,746 l
m_{O2} = V_{O2} * 31,9988 g/ mol / (24,055 l/mol) = 14,746*31,9988/24,055 l*g*mol/(mol*l) = 19.616 g
burned by 19 g candles = space without oxygen
volcanoes II (Caspar David Friedrich)
2018
business cards
about 120 x 400 x 70 cm
Each stack shows the average color of a painted horizon by Caspar David Friedrich. During his lifetime, three volcanoes erupted in the world and colored the sky.
