LITO KATTOU’S SOLO EXHIBITION TITLED “LANDS/SEXLIFE” CURATED BY IOANNA GERAKIDI

Ιoanna Gerakidi curates Lito Kattou’s solo exhibition titled “LANDS/SexLife” at the independent art space opbo studio, which opens at on Friday, June 30th at 8 pm.

In LANDS/SexLife, Kattou ponders and expands on the characteristics and symbolisms of the mantis as a species encountering life through survival, sex through shielding, resistance through cannibalism. Through a new body of work consisting of reliefs and other sculptural gestures, Kattou traces the circularity of time as an a-chronical structure, the fatality appended on the femme identity as a parable for protecting life and the landscape as a means for altering the dominant geopolitical narratives.

In LANDS/SexLife, the otherworldly, the uncanny, and the infinite are being mapped, inviting the audience to experience it as an act of seduction revealing other desires, sexes, successes, and safe spaces. In the exhibition opening, this parallel and unexplored universe will be activated through an ongoing performance that engages with Kattou’s reliefs, functioning as a mantra for the audience’s entry into the omniversal world.

Lito Kattou (Nicosia, 1990) is a visual artist based in Athens. Her works negotiate understandings of materiality and subjectivity through a composition of practices, spanning from digital fabrication to thermochemical elaborations. Her practice raises questions around the relationship between humans, animals, the environment and technology, symbiosis and alterity. Kattou is 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 Fonderia Battaglia, Fondation Thalie Brussels, Art Hub Copenhagen, PCAI Contemporary Art Initiative and 89 plus Google residencies. Recent solo shows have been presented at Fondazione Pomodoro, ICA Milano, TRANEN Copenhagen, Duarte Sequeira Gallery Braga, T293 Rome, Artothek Cologne, Benaki Museum Athens, Point Centre for Contemporary Art Nicosia. Among her activity she has participated in various group shows in museums, galleries and art spaces as at SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, the Onassis Foundation, in the Athens Biennale 7, the National Gallery Sofia, Culturgest Porto, Fidelidade Arte Lisbon, Ludwig Muzeum Budapest, Nottingham Contemporary, Kraupa- Tuskany Zeidler Berlin, Benaki Museum and Deste Foundation, Athens.
www.litokattou.com

Lito Kattou, “LANDS/SexLife”
Curated by Ioanna Gerakidi

Performance contributors:
Clothes: 2WO+1NE=2
Make up / hair styling: Sofia Kossada
Performers: Eleni Alexopoulou, Anna Anoussaki, Leda Dalla, Stavros Kastrinakis, Konstantina Barkouli, Rafael Sidiropoulos, Georgina Choleva
Info:
opbo studio, 86 Filonos Str., Piraeus, 18536
Exhibition opening: Friday, June 30, 2023, 20.00-22.00
Exhibition duration: June 30 – July 27, 2023
Visiting hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12.00-20.00
Free entrance

*Ioanna Gerakidi and Konstantina Barkouli are SNF ARTWORKS Fellows