Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (born 23 March 1948) is an Israeli-French artist, writer, psychoanalyst and philosopher based in France. Born in Mandatory Palestine, she lives and works in Paris. She is a feminist theorist and artist in contemporary New European Painting who invented the concepts of the matrixial space, Matrixial Gaze and related concepts around trauma, aesthetics and ethics.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Ettinger is a professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland[8] and at GCAS, Dublin.[9] In 2023, she was part of the Finding Committee for the Artistic Director of Documenta's 2027 edition.[10] 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.[11][12][13]
^Bracha L. Ettinger, "Matrix and Metramorphosis", Differences. Vol. 4, nº 3, 1992.
^Bracha L. Ettinger, The Matrixial Borderspace. (Essays from 1994 to 1999). University of Minnesota Press, 2006
^Bracha L. Ettinger, Régard et éspace-de-bord matrixiels. Brussels: La Lettre Volée, 1999.
^Bracha L. Ettinger, Proto-ética matricial. Psychoanalytical writings from the 1990s. Spanish Edition translated and Introduced by Julian Gutierrez Albilla (Gedisa 2019)
^Bracha L. Ettinger, "Diotima and the Matrixial Transference." In: Van der Merwe, C. N., and Viljoen, H., eds. Across the Threshold. New York: Peter Lang, 2007; ISBN978-1-4331-0002-4
^Bracha L. Ettinger, Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics. Vol 1: 1990-2000. Selected papers from the 1990s edited with Introduction by Griselda Pollock. Pelgrave Macmillan (2020).
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