Bodies X-XV,Lito Kattou

2022, Mar-

Bodies X-XV

№26/37

№ 1/1

Next project: → Myriad Worlds as Ours II

Previous project: ← Rain Calling

Lito Kattou, Body XIII, 2022, aluminium, steel, acrylic paint, nickel plated copper 206 x 144 x 40 cm

Lito Kattou, Body XIII, 2022, aluminium, steel, acrylic paint, nickel plated copper 206 x 144 x 40 cm, detail

Lito Kattou, Body X, 2022, aluminium, steel, acrylic paint 206 x 149,5 x 40 cm

Lito Kattou, Body XI, 2022, aluminium, steel, acrylic paint, nickel plated copper 10 x 115 x 40 cm

Lito Kattou, Body XI, 2022, aluminium, steel, acrylic paint, nickel plated copper 10 x 115 x 40 cm, detail

Lito Kattou, Body XII, 2022, aluminium, steel, acrylic paint 210 x 136,3 x 40 cm

Lito Kattou, Body XII, 2022, aluminium, steel, acrylic paint 210 x 136,3 x 40 cm, detail

Lito Kattou, Body XIV, 2022, aluminium, steel, acrylic paint 193 x 149,8 x 40 cm

Lito Kattou, Body XIV, 2022, aluminium, steel, acrylic paint 193 x 149,8 x 40 cm, detail

Lito Kattou, Body XV, 2022, luminium, steel, acrylic paint, electroformed nickel 206 x 149 x 40 cm

Lito Kattou, Body XV, 2022, luminium, steel, acrylic paint, electroformed nickel 206 x 149 x 40 cm, detail

Weather Engines

Onassis Foundation, Athens

Cur. Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parikka

01 April 2022 — 15 May 2022

The installation Body X-XV consists of aluminum hybrid figures that resemble correspondents and solemn wanders at the same time. Continuing her series of works “Bodies”, the artist develops a cluster of two dimensional sculptures related to the warming climate of the Mediterranean. Structured from an assembly of human, technological and natural parts, the figures emerge as environmental beings. Although they cannot be identified with known characters or myths, the drawings and imagery on their epidermis reveal their geographic origins. The element of fire traced on the bodies implies that they have departed from turbulent locations, holding memories of wildfire incidents or being capable of healing affected places and traumas. These anthropomorphic but also eerie bodies are accompanied by elements that the artist collected at mediterranean regions; elements like thorns and baskets bear a physical remembrance of loss and ecological destruction but also a reality that is to be opposed by bodies captured in movement.

*Commissioned and produced by Onassis Stegi