Lito Kattou
Lito Kattou (b. Nicosia, 1990) is an artist based in Athens and Nicosia. Her work negotiates 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, and the environment. She is the recipient of the Ducato Prize 2019 and the New Positions Award for Art Cologne 2018. She has been resident artist at Fondation Thalie, Art Hub Copenhagen, Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative, and 89plus Google Residency. Recent solo shows have been presented at Galeria Duarte Sequeira (Braga), T293 (Rome), Artothek (Cologne), Tile Projects (Milan), Benaki Museum (Athens), Point Centre for Contemporary Art (Nicosia), while she has also participated in various group shows in museums and art spaces such as the Athens Biennale 7, the National Gallery in Sofia, Culturgest (Porto), Fidelidade Arte (Lisbon), Ludwig Muzeum (Budapest), Nottingham Contemporary, Midway Contemporary, and DESTE Foundation.