Artist
From 1981 until 1992, Bracha Ettinger's principal artwork consisted of drawing and mixed media on paper (xerographie and photocopic dust, pigment and ashes with ink and pencil) as well as Notebooks and Artist's books, where alongside notation of thoughts and conversations the artist developed ink and wash painting and drawing. Since 1992, apart from continual Notebooks' work, most of her artwork consists of mixed media and oil paintings, with the series "Matrix — Family Album", "Autistwork" and "Eurydice", where the artist is engaged with questions of memory, trauma, light and beauty. In parallel to a long process of painting, the artist has developed the field of installation and archive, and has broadened the idea of artistic activity to include theoretical research and the tracing the development of a groundbreaking theory, lecturing-events, encounter-events and conversations. Her paintings, photos, drawings and notebooks have been exhibited extensively in major museums of contemporary art across the world, such as Pompidou Centre (1987, 1996, 2010–2011) and the Stedelijk Museum (1997). The art historian and cultural analyst Griselda Pollock has dedicated since the beginning of the 1990s a continuous research to Ettinger's painting and drawing, from the perspectives of Art history, Modern and Postmodern art, Jewish History after the Shoah, Psychoanalytic theory and Feminism.
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