Lydia Karpenko is a interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Ucluelet, on the traditional territory of the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ First Nation. She works with interactive installation, sculpture, animation, video, ceramics, textiles, and drawing. Often using architectural interventions, her work questions the juxtaposition between technology and handcrafted objects and investigates the relationship of body to space. Karpenko was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to Canada in her teens. Her work explores questions of sustainability, displacement and cultural self-identity