Bracha L. Ettinger‘s paintings and drawings are obtained through multifold layers of pigment, ash, color and fine lines, in a durational process that can span through several years.

For the artist, writer, psychoanalyst and teacher, painting presents an occasion to transform the remnants of a beleaguered historical past into a transhistorical field of compassion. Traces of sighs and tears, semaphores of deep emotion, are re-inscribed onto canvas as forms of delicate and fragile communication. The artist connects to transgenerational memories culled from both a personal and a collective consciousness to transpire themes of maternality, non-abandonment, and care. She invites the viewer to perceive these fields of empathy as a kind of depth-space and as a passageway towards a productive ‘transubjectivity’. The diffracted feminine subject at its core existing as a mother-figure and as an expansive space: a mental and physical holding zone. Understanding painting as equally an aesthetic and ethical gesture, Bracha L. Ettinger’s oeuvre builds toward a visual language of lament and wonder. It is a monumental architecture of female sign language.

Solo exhibitions devoted to the artist have been presented by numerous international museums and biennials including: K21 museum in Dusseldorf, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (ongoing); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (2021-23); Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA; Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Keraly, India; Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland; 14th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, France; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium; The Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Drawing Center, New York, USA. Her work has been presented in numerous group museum exhibitions including: Art Museion, Bolzano, Italy; GAM, Turin, Italy; Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; MAS/KMSKA Museums, Antwerp, Belgium; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. USA; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.

Bracha L. Ettinger is the author of numerous articles and books on art, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and ethics including: The Matrixial Borderspace [essays 1994-1999], 2006; Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics, Vol 1:1990-2000, ed. G. Pollock, 2020; Regard et Espace-de-bord matrixial, 1999.