Teaser of Bracha's Notebooks and Drawings - A selection

Bracha L. Ettinger / BRACHA (Tel Aviv, 1948) articulates different media such as notebooks and theoretical writing, performative encounter-events, drawing and painting, which are composed in an organic continuum consisting of fragmentary annotations, alongside theoretical texts, paintings and drawings characterised by drafts and sketches sometimes accompanied by stains soaked in pure colour, and by figurations that are both phantasmagorical and dense with possible evocations. All those are a part of the artist’s daily practices, and refer to abstract ideas interwoven with a biographical and historical dimension that questions memory and the unconscious and requires a slow and laborious production, such as that needed by her small-scale oil paintings on canvas or attentive inscription in notebooks. Therefore, taken together, BRACHA's artworks translate the depth and radicality of a figure in whom different matrices come together, from psychoanalysis - the artist was also a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst - to self-affirmation as an artist, philosopher and feminist theorist, emerging in these areas of investigation and experimentation as one of the most authoritative artists and authors of the second half of the 20th and the first quarter of the 21st century.
Video: Luca Guadagnini