Read “Aesthetic Wit(h)nessing in the Era of Trauma”, Griselda Pollock’s article of Bracha L. Ettinger’s artistic practice:

“Israeli/French artist and psychoanalytical theorist, Bracha Ettinger has declared: “In art today we are moving from phantasm to trauma. Contemporary aesthetics is moving from phallic structure to matrixial sphere.” In analysing the significance of this claim, this article will bring together the legacies of feminist, post-colonial cultural theories in relation to the current focus on trauma, memory and aesthetics in an international context.”

Image: Bracha L. Ettinger, Eurydice n. 14, 1994-98, oil and photocopic dust on paper mounted on canvas, 51.5x 20 cm. Courtesy of the artist.