About

Lito Kattou (b. 1990, Nicosia, Cyprus) is a visual artist based in Athens and Nicosia. Part of an emergent continuum of production, her works negotiate understandings of materiality and subjectivity through a composition of practices, spanning from digital fabrication to thermochemical elaborations.

Kattou’s practice raises questions on the relationship between humans, animals, environment and technology, symbiosis and alterity. Her works engage with the sculptural potentiality of f!atness, processes of embodiment and the transfigurations of material properties within the margins of space and time. Her practice talks about what comes before and after the body, the possibility of its presence and absence, its representation and its abstraction.

Subjectivation in Kattou’s work is understood as a series of tactics for the production and the conditioning of the self and the other. The subject is presented as a wanderer, transcending identity and categorization: a composition of voices shining equivocally between dialogue and monologue. Space, form and narrative is structured around traces left from acts of attack and defense, modes of roaming and intimate communication in an open-ended speculation on structuring relationships with Mediterannean localties and in extend the cosmos, anew.

Kattou is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London with an MA in Sculpture and the Athens School of Fine Arts. She was the recipient of the Ducato Prize 2019 and the New Positions Award for Art Cologne 2018 and she has been the invited artist at the EMST X Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Fonderia Battaglia Residency Milano, Foundation Thalie Residency, ART HUB Copenhagen Residency, the Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative and the 89plus Google Residency.

Recent solo shows have been presented at Fondazione Pomodoro, ICA Milano, TRANEN Copenhagen, Galeria Duarte Sequeira Braga, T293 Rome, Tile Projects Milan, Artothek Cologne, Benaki Museum Athens, Point Centre for Contemporary Art and she has participated in various group shows at art spaces, galleries and museums as at the Polish Sculpture Center, Moritzburg Museum, the Living Content Biennial, Gianni Manhattan Vienna, SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, Onassis Foundation Athens, GaMEC Bergamo, the 7th Athens Bienalle, Fidelidade Arte Lisbon, Muzeum Ludwig Budapest, Nottingham Contemporary Nottingham, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Berlin, Komplot Brussels, Midway Contemporary Minneapolis, Benaki Museum and Deste Foundation Athens.

Her works are included in prominent international and private collections as the Dakis Joannou Collection, the collection of the National Bank of Greece, the collection of the National Bank of Greece, the State collection of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Cyprus, the collection of Deutsche Telekom.