MEMORY’S WOUND IS A SPACE WITH-IN:
DEPTHSPACE AND CARRIANCE BEYOND ABSTRACTION VERSUS EMPATHY.
Bracha L. Ettinge
Thursday, Apr 26, May 3, May 10 at 2-5PM
UB Anderson Gallery
1 Martha Jackson Pl, Buffalo, NY
In the seminar, Bracha will lend philosophical scope to the issues that she explores in her artwork. Together with her students, she will elaborate how taking seriously the maternal in human life changes the way we think, leading us to transform our relationship to historical trauma, our inherited ideas about the interaction between self and other in ethics, and the distinction between abstraction and empathy in aesthetics.
The event is Free & Open to the Public
Bracha L. Ettinger is a visual artist, painter and theorist, psychoanalyst and philosopher, working between Paris and Tel-Aviv.
The author of The Matrixial Borderspace, Ettinger’s work is engaged with motifts such as human subject and pain, compassion, loss, feminine gaze and space, co-emergence, female body and the maternal, abstraction, witnessing and the Holocaust, trans-generational memory traces and biography, and the constitutive role of the feminine in the Unconscious and in social bond analysed via literature, film and mythology
Recent shows include: Colori, GAM, Torino; The Haunted House/The Human Condition, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow; The Image of War, Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm. Bracha has exhibited at venues including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Pompidou Centre, Paris, ICA, Boston; Whitechapel, London; with one-person shows at Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers; MOMA, Oxford; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. She is Professor of Art and Psychoanalysis at EGS and GCAS, and a supervising analyst (TAICP, AMP, NLS)