Bracha ettinger biography of michael

BRACHA is prominent international visual artist, feminist theorist, psychoanalyst, philosopher and creator of 'matrixial theory.' Born BRACHA L. Ettinger in 1948, Tel Aviv, where she currently lives and works, her paintings revolve around Eros and Thanatos, mythological female figures who were mortified (Eurydice, Medusa, Ophelia and Persephone), as well as historical, transgenerational and personal traumas of women in times of war.

 

BRACHA's images engage with birth, the naked female body and the killing of women and mothers during the Holocaust (based on her family's destiny in the Ponary Forest and in the Stutthof Concentration Camp for Women during the Second World War).

Her abstraction gives form to contemplation of the unconscious and innovates a non-perspectival depth-space in relation to transparency and light with the practice of witnessing between aesthetics and ethics. 

 

In BRACHA's recent series