Irini Kattou – Artist,Performer and Costume Design

Irini Kattou (b. 2000) is a visual artist, performer and costume designer whose work explores the relationship between the body and its politics. With a background in garment construction and a deep interest in postcolonial studies, feminism, and queer theory, she pushes the boundaries between costume, sculpture, and performance. Having studied at Central Saint Martins, she now resides in London, with her Cypriot heritage shaping her artistic practice. Kattou sees garment-making as a sculptural process, experimenting with molding techniques and unconventional materials to blur the line between costume and art. She is particularly drawn to costume-led performances, where garments drive the narrative. Themes of death, decay, and rebirth emerge in her material choices. Currently, her work focuses on girlhood and femininity, using colour, gems and glitter to juxtapose the obscured violence of growing up as a girl. More specifically, through rehearsals where plaster casting her mother’s body, she produced work from the archive, either from the molds created, or the photographic documentation. The work is about the body as a landscape, as a site of historical continuity and negotiation, where boundaries between You and I are negotiated continuously.