Lucile Littot

Lucile Littot (b. 1985 Paris, France) is a French visual artist who lives and works between Paris, Onesse-Laharie in France and Athens in Greece. Her artistic practice encompasses painting, ceramic and sculptural work that. The pieces are beautiful, flamboyant, baroque and glamourous. Lucile Littot's universe strikes by its freedom, its singularity, its prosperity for exuberance, which is alternatively baroque, rococo, romantic, dreamlike, grotesque, caricatural, caustic, joyful and tragic. Glamorous and trash,  Littot plays with hierachies and aesthetic categories to draw references from both the field of scholarly and popular culture. The objects in her installations then become the symbolic catalysts of multiple, intimate, personal, family, cultural, religious, historical references, with a predilection for tragi-glorious female destinies.

 

Solo exhibitions include Conte Du Cygne Et Sept Autres Histoires Extraordinaires, on invitation by Victoire DePourtalès, Château du Marais, Le Val Saint Germain, France (2022); Mommie Dearest, Galeria Duarte Sequeira,Braga, Portugal (2021); Midnight Cinderella Sunrise Olympia, Galerie Allouche-Benias, Athens, Greece (2021); LaNuit étoilée ou la Nuit sans étoiles, Window Project, Tbilissi, Georgia (2021); It Will Be Very Glamorous To BeReincarnated As A Great Big Ring On Liz Taylor’s Finger, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2020); Bons Baisers Dela French Riviera, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France (2018); Sur un Air de Wagner, New Galerie,Paris, France (2018); Nominated for the 20th Price of the Fondation d’Enterprise Ricard, Paris, France (2018); FlashBack, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France (2017); She Was A Very Nice Girl, surinvitation d'Élodie Cazes, Roseanne, Los Angeles, USA (2017); J'ai tout vu, j'ai tout su, et j'ai tout oublié Song N.3Hotel California, Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, France (2016); IT'S A GIRL!!! Performance sur une invitation deRebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Paris, France (2015); Érébe (shortfilm-hd-16min-fiction-2013-Los Angeles) selected in competition Vidéo, Art et et Essai au Festival Côté Court, Pantin, France (2015); Madness Grandiosa, installationwith the Maison Abandonnée (with support from Del Vaz Projects), Los Angeles, USA (2014); Érébe (short-film-hd-16min-fiction-2013-Los Angeles) projection in the Underground Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2014); MelancholicSabbath (short-film-hd-16min-fiction-2010-France) presented by The Impermanent Collection, The Clemente, NewYork City, USA (2013); Rats and Barocco, The Impermanent Collection, Los Angeles, USA (2013); MelancholicSabbath projection and performance – in collaboration with Evan Collins Conway, The Besant Lodge, LosAngeles, USA (2012).

 

Group exhibitions include Where the Wild roses grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Görne, Berlin, Germany (2023); Amphoreus, 91530 LE MARAIS, Le Val Saint Germain, France (2022); Oh I love Barbie, butI think she’s gotten really bad… She’s so suburban now, New Galerie, Paris, France (2022); Les Flammes L’Âge DeLa Céramique, show commissioned by Anne Dressen, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France (2021); LaDiosa Verde commissioned by : Dorothée Dupuis, Musée de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico (2021); FemaleObjectivity, a perspective of Marval Collection, Group Exhibition, Castello Di Vilanterio, Pv, Italy (2021); Canons,Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France (2021); She came to stay, Andrea Festa Gallery, Rome, Italy (2021);Fantasmagorie, Superzoom Art, Paris, France (2021); Your friends and Neighbors, High Art Paris, France (2020);Les chemins du sud, commissioned by Emanuelle Luciani et Charlotte Cosson, MRAC Sérignan, Sérignan,France (2019); Léopoldine, Sans Titre, Paris, France (2019); Who Cares ?, a group show, New Galerie, Paris France (2019); Entre Les Frontières, Galerie / Espace d’art contemporain du Théâtre de Privas, France (2019); La Déesseverte, commissioned by Dorothée Dupuis, Lille 3000, Lille, France (2019); Group Show curated by Anissa Touati, Galeria Cuartos de Macinas, Mexico City, Mexico (2018); Le Drap Dans L'halogène, a project proposed byRebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Paris, France (2017); Sueurs Chaudes, curated by Julia Marchand, South Way Studio,Marseille, France (2017); Nothing to Hide, curated by Marie Madec, Sans Titre, Paris, France (2017); Revenge ofthe crystal, curated by Ariana Papademetropoulos, Sade L.A, Los Angeles, USA (2017); Cool Memories, curated by Myriam Ben Salah, Occidental Contemporary, Villejuif, France (2016); Design and Crime, curated by FranklinMelendez, Galerie Eric Hussenot, Paris, France (2016); Requiem for The Sloths, performance-collaboration withCaroline Mesquita during Mon Horizontalité, curated by Julie Boukobza, Untilthen, St Ouen, France (2015); Veils, curated by Ariana Papademetropoulos and Jordhan Dahl, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2014);Joy Of Fear, curated by Eugénie Frémiot, The Impermanent Collection, Los Angeles, USA (2013); Cocktail de Vampire pour un Rêve de Vénus, in Art By Telephone, performance curated by Rebecca Lamarche Vadel and Cecile Evans in the Contemporary Art Fair Access and Paradox, Paris, France (2010); Straight to the Unknown curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel at The Forgotten Bar, Berlin, Germany (2010).

In 2022 Littot was awarded the  91530 Le Marais Residency in Le Val Saint Germain in France and the Residency for Cermica Suro in Guadalajara in Mexico in 2020. She has received production grants for ‘La Nuit tous les chats sont gris’ from DRAC in île de France in 2022 and from Fondation Des Artistes for the project “Mommie Dearest” in 2020. Lucile Littot’s work is part of the FRAC Pays de Loire Collection in Nantes, France.

 

FLAUNT Magazine, Nate Rynaski, The Zoom Generation, A conversationwith Lucile Littot and Bernanrd Marcade (2021).

PURPLE Magazine, (author unknown) Lucile Littot’s “It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger” at Night Gallery, LA (2020).

Image by  Vincent Ferrané.