Quarters of memory
from 14 September 2013 to 13 October 2013
Exhibition of artist Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger in terms of the 12th Festival Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum.
Peter and Paul Fortress, exhibition hall of Ioannovsky ravelin
This project shows a retrospective of work of Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger – artist, analytical psychologist, feminism theorist and creator of matrixial gaze theory.
Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger was born in Tel-Aviv. She currently lives and works in Paris. She cooperates with universities of Paris and Hebrew Jerusalem University, Professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She is the author and participant of the exhibitions at London Freud Museum, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Antoni Tapies Foundation in Bercelona, Museum of Contemporary Art in Oxford and other world museums and galleries. Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger is the author of many books on issues of psychological analytics, art and feminism.
The artist’s key topics are memory, oblivion, history, displacement, trauma, Holocaust. She turns to dangerous moments of social memory working with the archives and rare documents left from the times of fascism domination in Europe.
Clash of different materials: photographs from family archives, photomaps, archive documents, drawings - is common for the art of Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger. And the result of this clash is always unpredictable.
The project “Quarters of memory” at the Peter and Paul Fortress presents the artist’s diaries, graphics, paintings and video. The second part of the exhibition is displayed at the Zigmund Freud Museum (Bolshoy prospect of Petrograd side, 19A).
The exhibition is held within the framework of the 12th Festival Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum organized by the PRO ARTE Foundation and the Northwest branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art with the support of the St Petersburg Committee for Culture, Mikhail Prokhorov Fund and Consulate General of Israel in St Petersburg.
