Bracha L. Ettinger
Israeli artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst · France · On the map · Artists · Born 1948 · age 78
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger is an Israeli-French artist, writer, psychoanalyst and philosopher based in France. Born in Mandatory Palestine, she lives and works in Paris.
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![Robert Doisneau photographed by Ettinger in his studio in Montrouge,[132] 1992](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Robert_Doisneau_photographed_by_Bracha_L._Ettinger_in_his_studio_in_Montrouge%2C_1992.jpg/1280px-Robert_Doisneau_photographed_by_Bracha_L._Ettinger_in_his_studio_in_Montrouge%2C_1992.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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She is a feminist theorist and artist in contemporary New European Painting who invented the concepts of the matrixial space and matrixial gaze and related concepts around trauma, aesthetics and ethics. Ettinger is a professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and at GCAS, Dublin. In 2023, she was part of the Finding Committee for the Artistic Director of Documenta's 2027 edition. She resigned from that role with a public letter intended to open a radical discussion in the artworld, following the administration's rejection of her request for a pause due to the attacks on civilians in Israel and in Gaza and the ongoing heavy losses of life.
