Lydia Maria Pfeffer is an artist, who currently lives and works in Vienna.
Pfeffer mines a cross section of psychological strategies, cultural symbolism, rites, and rituals as she draws and paints worlds in which escapism is revelation and queerness is a healing journey. Anthropomorphism, gender play, and eroticism abound amidst a morphing cast of Pfeffer’s wondrous and self-realized characters inspired by the fables, folk tales, and mythologies of the world. Pfeffer looks for similarities in diverse cultural archetypes and their very common human emotional origins. At the core of every painting is a basic desire for love and belonging. Pfeffer pulls her figures from the ether, creating safe spaces for them to tell their tales, process their traumas, and not only heal but thrive. The last few years Pfeffer focused strongly on FEMMES and overturning their imposed and deceptive image that had been fabricated throughout our patriarchal history and religion. Through a feminist and contemporary lens, she is interested in shedding narratives of demonization, instead reclaiming stories, strength, power, and the magic that is the feminine. Be it divine or profane.
Pfeffer mines a cross section of psychological strategies, cultural symbolism, rites, and rituals as she draws and paints worlds in which escapism is revelation and queerness is a healing journey. Anthropomorphism, gender play, and eroticism abound amidst a morphing cast of Pfeffer’s wondrous and self-realized characters inspired by the fables, folk tales, and mythologies of the world. Pfeffer looks for similarities in diverse cultural archetypes and their very common human emotional origins. At the core of every painting is a basic desire for love and belonging. Pfeffer pulls her figures from the ether, creating safe spaces for them to tell their tales, process their traumas, and not only heal but thrive. The last few years Pfeffer focused strongly on FEMMES and overturning their imposed and deceptive image that had been fabricated throughout our patriarchal history and religion. Through a feminist and contemporary lens, she is interested in shedding narratives of demonization, instead reclaiming stories, strength, power, and the magic that is the feminine. Be it divine or profane.
