Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger
Pompidou Centre, Face a l’Histore, 1996/7.
Another fleeting-like imagery. I’ve had the privilege of sitting in on symposium readings of L-Ettinger’s and to study her texts (lightly) during my M.A. studies in England. Lichtenberg Ettinger is a painter, theorist, and psychoanalyist. Her theory of the Matrixial borderspace needs careful reading for comprehension, and a must for pyschoanalytical understanding and readings and talk for her art works. In her paintings, images are stopped through old photocopier’s before, or when, and partially fused to the paper, then painted into. They are like fragments behind glass frames: photographs of people, and texts, fragile reminders, and of what has been left.
More images here, and check out the texts too.
Here is a presentation with exerpts from her texts and photos of her paintings.
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Thank you for this post. The text is dense and difficult to follow, but the images are powerful and engaging. Ultimately art exists in a mostly, wordless world (for me anyway). These images are enduring and successful, with or without the accompanying texts. Her work reminds me of Hannelore Baron’s anxious and psychologically complex mixed media drawings.