Nicola L.: Softening Modernism at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles
Frieze
March 2023
Benno Herz (Program Director, Thomas Mann House) describes how the German author sought refuge in a Modernist Californian home, and his living legacy; and Jay Ezra Nayssan (Founder, Del Vaz Projects) speaks about his radical project to install works by Moroccan-born, French artist Nicola L., who spent her life softening the built environment, often challenging Modernism’s male hegemony of vision with a call to touch, hear and breathe. […]