Lito Kattou is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Royal College of Art in London.
In her work, she combines traditional craftsmanship with digital production processes and thermochemical methods. Metallic coldness and hardness meet emotionality and subjectivity. Lito Kattou's works play with the sculptural potential of flatness and two-dimensionality. She examines the visual and philosophical process in which an idea, originally not spatially tangible, then takes shape in real space in time and three-dimensionality during the artistic work.
Lito Kattou locates her works at the boundaries that separate different areas of reality in our everyday understanding. To do this, she uses cut-out silhouettes reminiscent of historic paper-cuts, places them in the room like information boards and combines them with three-dimensional objects.
Two-dimensionality changes into three-dimensional space. History merges with the present and transforms into visionary models of the future. Inanimate matter borders on organic life forms. Characters that originate from virtual reality or computer games move into the everydayness of an exhibition space.
A thistle covered in copper is reminiscent of the landscape of her native Cyprus and also conveys the enormous importance that this metal had for the island's history.
Private narratives, emotions and hopes shift into the general political field, into the great historical and social narratives against the backdrop of current crises and conflicts.
Many of her works can be read as free associations. Between the forms, colours and references to concrete objects, an open narrative unfolds with further twists and turns. Lito Kattou conveys a way of thinking that strives to understand reality in an open and unbiased way - emotionally and rationally in all its changing complexity.
