Lydia Maria Pfeffer is an artist, who currently lives and works in New York. She was born and raised in Austria.
Pfeffer’s work focuses on the psychological interpretations of cultural symbolism, rites, rituals and escapism as revelation. Her attraction to anthropomorphism, symbolism and personification can be traced back to early childhood years, where she fell in love with fables, fairy tales and mythology. One of Pfeffer’s strongest influence is Jung's idea of the ‘collective unconscious’.
With strong female leads and protagonists, Pfeffer re-imagines and re-shapes existing stories from history and literature, and weaves them into her own contemporary tales.
Pfeffer’s work focuses on the psychological interpretations of cultural symbolism, rites, rituals and escapism as revelation. Her attraction to anthropomorphism, symbolism and personification can be traced back to early childhood years, where she fell in love with fables, fairy tales and mythology. One of Pfeffer’s strongest influence is Jung's idea of the ‘collective unconscious’.
With strong female leads and protagonists, Pfeffer re-imagines and re-shapes existing stories from history and literature, and weaves them into her own contemporary tales.
