Bracha L. Ettinger, PhD, is artist-painter and artist-theorist, writer, philosopher and psychoanalyst working between Paris and Tel Aviv, author of The Matrixial Gaze and The Matrixial Borderspace as well as many articles on copoiesis, transgenerational and personal trauma, memory, witnessing and the Unconscious, feminine subjectivity, maternality, sexual difference, painting, ethics and aesthetics. A selection of her papers in 2 volumes edited by Griselda Pollock, Matrixial Subjectivity, is in print in Pelgrave Macmillan. Her recent shows include: Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018-19; Heart of Darkness. Castello di Rivoli at OGR, Turin 2019; UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo 2018 (solo); Muzeum Śląskie, Katowice 2017 (solo); Colori, GAM, Turin, The Image of War, Bonnier Konsthall, Stockholm, Encounters, MAS/KMSKA Museums, Antwerpen; Lyric on a Battelfield, Gladstone Gallery, NY; The Haunted House / The Human Condition, Ekaterina Ins. of Contemporary Art, Moscow (all in 2017). The 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015). Monogrpahs on Bracha L.E. include: Art as Compassion edited by G. Pollock and C. de Zegher, and And My Heart Wound-Space, Istanbul Biennale, 2015. Bracha L. Ettinger is Chair and Professor of Art and Psychoanalysis, EGS, Saas-Fee; Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, GCAS, Dublin; Supervising Psychoanalyst, TAICP, NLS, AMP.

ABOUT SFSIA

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is a nomadic, intensive summer academy with shifting programs in contemporary critical theory. SFSIA stresses an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between art and politics. The program consists of seminar-style lectures, deep readings, and workshops. An evening lecture program is free and open to the public. SFISA was founded and is directed by Warren Neidich and is co-directed by Barry Schwabsky. Sarrita Hunn is the artistic coordinator.