Lito Kattou

Part of an emergent continuum of production, Lito Kattou’sworks negotiate understandings of materiality and subjectivity through a composition of practices, spanning from digital fabrication to thermochemical elaborations. Her practice raises questions on the relationship between humans, animals, environment and technology, symbiosis and alterity. Her works engage with the sculptural potentiality of flatness, processes of embodiment and the transfigurations of material properties within the margins of space and time challenging in this way concrete understandings of the medium of sculpture. Archeological and anthropological artifacts, myths and storytelling bridge to post-colonial narratives and political manifestings of worldbuilding for the present time.Space, form and narrative is structured around traces left from acts of transformation in an open-ended speculation on structuring relationships with Mediterranean localities and in extension the cosmos, anew.

Lito 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, Foundation Thalie Residency, ART HUB Copenhagen Residency, the Polygreen Culture & Art Initiative and the 89plus Google Residency. Her practice has been presented in solo and group exhibitions including at the Fondazione Pomodoro, ICA Milano, TRANEN Copenhagen, T293 Rome, Artothek Cologne, Benaki Museum Athens, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Cyprus, the Polish Sculpture Center, Moritzburg Museum, the Living Content Biennial, SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, Onassis Foundation Athens, GaMEC Bergamo, the 7th Athens Biennale, Fidelidade Arte Lisbon, Muzeum Ludwig Budapest, Nottingham Contemporary, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler Berlin, Komplot Brussels, Midway Contemporary Minneapolis, 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 State collection of Contemporary Art of the Republic of Cyprus, the Onassis Foundation, the collection of Deutsche Telekom.Since 2018, she is the co-editor of the Athens based editorial project AM.printed club.