Andrea Scrima on the old lady across the hall
Andrea Scrima is an artist and writer from New York who has been living in Berlin for much of her adult life. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts and the Hochschule der Künste, she has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards for her art and writing from institutions including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York and the Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur in Berlin. Her short story “Sisters” was awarded a National Hackney Literary Award in 2007. For more about her work, please go to her website.
The image above is taken from Scrima’s installation Shelf Life.



