VISUAL ARTS
INSTALLATION + WRITING
Lydia Kann (United States) is both a writer and visual artist. She creates site-specific installations that incorporate text, sculpture, and drawing. Lydia Kann also writes fiction and memoir. Her interest is in human resilience in the face of challenges from outside and from within. How do certain people rise above the experience of war, mental illness, poverty, ethnic and racial hatred, emigration, and outsiderness?
Lydia Kann is currently working on a graphic novel and a traditional novel exploring the legacy of the Second World War in France on the descendant generations.