Deborah Schamoni is delighted to present Israeli-French artist, writer, psychoanalyst, and philosopher BRACHA Lichtenberg Ettinger. One room of the gallery is dedicated solely to a painting from Bracha’s iconoclastic series Angel of Carriance: Medusa n.1.
For BRACHA, painting presents an occasion to transform the remnants of a beleaguered historical past into a transhistorical field of compassion. Traces of sighs and tears, semaphores of deep emotion, are re-inscribed onto canvas as forms of delicate and fragile communication. In her paintings, women victims of the Shoah encounter female figures from ancient myth. Her ethical and aesthetic program opens up new spaces for interpersonal relations, compassion, and openness to our future.
BRACHA’s work has been exhibited widley in institutions and biennials such as K21, Düsseldorf, Germany; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy; Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Keraly, India; Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland; 14th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, France; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Drawing Center, New York, USA.