Les Sirènes étaient des femmes oiseaux !

In The Odyssey, the Sirens were female birds with angelic faces and eagle bodies, dangerous seductresses who sang to Odysseus before trading their wings for fishtails and the watery world below. Hybrid beings, witnesses of this eternal ambivalence, they have endlessly infiltrated popular mythology, steered by vice and virtue. Today, the concept of hybridization asserts itself more pragmatically and broadly in both personal and societal spheres. We no longer posit “either/or”; instead we say “and.” Lito Kattou’s hybrid creatures mix the human with the divine, fauna with flora, highlighting this vital need to adapt to new environmental challenges through mutation and—by extension—innovation. In dialogue with the Cypriot artist Lito Kattou’s flat sculptures, Anne-Charlotte Finel’s videos highlight the in-between, the interstices, the non-demarcated inter- mediate spaces where any metamorphosis can occur.
“Surveyors or not, we innovate in between,” stated the philosopher Michel Serres.