Un parcours de l'œuvre peinte de l'artiste, philosophe, psychanalyste et théoricienne féministe israélienne Bracha L. Ettinger, à travers un ensemble de reproductions et de textes de Jean-François Lyotard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Noam Segal, Amelia Jones, Precious Okoyomon et de l'artiste elle-même. Bracha L. Ettinger, née en 1948, travaille aux avant-postes de la peinture contemporaine. Comme beaucoup d'autres femmes artistes, la radicalité de son travail commence à peine à être reconnue. Ettinger a formulé la théorie matricielle de l'origine à la fois comme modèle thérapeutique et comme philosophie. L'espace matrixiel se déploie également dans son travail artistique. Pour la première exposition personnelle de Bracha L. Ettinger à Paris depuis 22 ans, Radicants publie un ensemble de textes essentiels autour de son travail, incluant deux textes de Jean-François Lyotard, un écrit de Noam Segal (commissaire de l'exposition), un texte d'Amelia Jones, et enfin – le plus récent – un projet d'écriture à quatre mains de Precious Okoyomon et Bracha L. Ettinger elle-même. « L'œuvre de Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger est un travail d'anamnèse, guidé par la présence de la Shoah. Cette présence, comme de la Chose, ne demande rien, elle se fait oublier : déjà par le code secret dont la forclôt l'administration SS de la Endlösung, mais encore sous le nom bénin d'Holocauste, sous les pardons cérémonieux des chefs d'État et d'Église, et encore sous les mémoriaux – autant de modes de l'oubli. » Jean-François Lyotard.

The fifteen-year career of Israeli-French artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger has already gained her renown and historical significance. After important solo exhibitions organized by major museums and contributions to various group exhibitions during the last two decades, "Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger: Artworking 1985-1999" offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's groundbreaking and challenging oeuvre. In addition to a fully illustrated selection of her major works and series, this catalogue contains five essays together with a compilation of the artist's notes.

Artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. Ettinger works through Lacan’s late works, the anti-Oedipal perspectives of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as object-relations theory to critique the phallocentrism of mainstream Lacanian theory and to rethink the masculine-feminine opposition. She replaces the phallic structure with a dimension of emergence, where objects, images, and meanings are glimpsed in their incipiency, before they are differentiated. This is the matrixial realm, a shareable, psychic dimension that underlies the individual unconscious and experience. Concerned with collective trauma and memory, Ettinger’s own experience as an Israeli living with the memory of the Holocaust is a deep source of inspiration for her paintings, several of which are reproduced in the book. The paintings, like the essays, replay the relation between the visible and invisible, the sayable and ineffable; the gaze, the subject, and the other. Bracha Ettinger is a painter and a senior clinical psychologist. She is professor of psychoanalysis and aesthetics at the University of Leeds, England, and Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Judith Butler is professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Griselda Pollock is professor of fine arts at the University of Leeds. Brian Massumi is professor of communication at the University of Montreal.

Comprising examples of artwork and a series of essays, this collection examines and assesses the current status of painting within global contemporary art. It sheds light on fine art as it is understood as a facet of a global culture and society dominated by Northern European and US power and history.