Within the Espressioni exhibition program which characterizes the activities of the Castello di Rivoli in the years 2021-2022, the Research Center of the Castello di Rivoli (CRRI) in collaboration with the curatorial department of the museum, organizes the first exhibition in an Italian institution dedicated to Bracha L. Ettinger (Tel Aviv, 1948), whose artistic practice is intertwined with her work and research as a philosopher and psychoanalyst.

Bracha L. Ettinger's practice is rooted in the artist's autobiographical past, in the history of her parents who survived the Holocaust, and analyzes the concepts of trauma, oblivion, the female gaze and "matrixial", of the space of the unconscious and the transition from the invisible to the visible, emphasizing the properties of the art to cure and heal the individual and society. His notebooks, like his paintings, are characterized by a dimension balanced between abstract and figurative obtained through very fine strokes as well as the application of layers of color and the definition of shapes that create an oblique atmosphere between darkness and light and invite the spectator to immerse themselves in an intimate and spiritual time.

The exhibition presents a selection of 5 paintings and around 50 notebooks used by the artist to write down his reflections, associations and work notes, combining words and drawings. The notebooks, written in three languages (French, English and Hebrew) and divided between notebooks annotated during therapy sessions and artist notebooks, testify to the dual activity of Bracha L. Ettinger and constitute a privileged point of view for deepening his research and his thoughts. The artist's notebooks are displayed in an unprecedented and unitary installation in the historic rooms of the Castello di Rivoli including the "Sala dei Putti Dormienti", decorated in 1720 and intended at the time to house the King's chamber. The display cases in which they are presented the notebooks are set up in dialogue with the frescoed ceiling, creating an organic path and allowing visitors to move freely to observe each notebook more closely in a meditative atmosphere.