Lucile Littot
(—b. 1985, Paris, France)
In 2011, I left for Los Angeles where I lived and worked for three consecutive years, curious to hear the roar of convertible engines along its winding boulevards, which I imagined would guide me in the footsteps of the iconic Mike Kelley. His work, which — among other personal reflections — dissects the complex absurdities of an elitist and conformist Western society, resonated with my own questions and artistic research.
The pebbles scattered at random across the hopscotch of pink fake-marble stars — made in Hollywood Babylon* — led me to meet the artist Marnie Weber. The year I spent assisting her gave me both the confidence and the certainty that it was indeed possible to develop an intimate and singular practice within contemporary art, while still being attentive to critique.
The imaginary realm I cultivate in my practice draws from multiple sources: cinematic, literary, art historical, and magical. My aesthetic is rooted in the Baroque, the Rococo and the Commedia dell’arte, following in the lineage of my inspirational figures: Jack Smith, Maya Deren and Derek Jarman.
I am drawn to feminine figures and disenchanted generations, while seeking to sublimate the tragic through appearances. Behind the costumed, caricatural, pop, obscene representations tinged with Italian mannerism, also lies the idea of a fictionalized autobiography.
By veering toward the grotesque and black humor, my works stage a biting, neurotic parody of existence, grounded in the ambivalence of beauty, pleasure, opulence, and decadence.
By unfolding the various threads of my artistic practice — through painting, sculpture, and image — I strive to reveal the ambiguity generated by feminine figures and other stereotyped dolls from novels or films, based mainly on the dictates of Hollywood’s patriarchal studios.
Driven by my fascination with the flamboyant and the theatrical, my aim is to restore an authentic power to that metaphysical enigma — at once grotesque, beautiful and mysterious — that is femininity.
L.L.
The pebbles scattered at random across the hopscotch of pink fake-marble stars — made in Hollywood Babylon* — led me to meet the artist Marnie Weber. The year I spent assisting her gave me both the confidence and the certainty that it was indeed possible to develop an intimate and singular practice within contemporary art, while still being attentive to critique.
The imaginary realm I cultivate in my practice draws from multiple sources: cinematic, literary, art historical, and magical. My aesthetic is rooted in the Baroque, the Rococo and the Commedia dell’arte, following in the lineage of my inspirational figures: Jack Smith, Maya Deren and Derek Jarman.
I am drawn to feminine figures and disenchanted generations, while seeking to sublimate the tragic through appearances. Behind the costumed, caricatural, pop, obscene representations tinged with Italian mannerism, also lies the idea of a fictionalized autobiography.
By veering toward the grotesque and black humor, my works stage a biting, neurotic parody of existence, grounded in the ambivalence of beauty, pleasure, opulence, and decadence.
By unfolding the various threads of my artistic practice — through painting, sculpture, and image — I strive to reveal the ambiguity generated by feminine figures and other stereotyped dolls from novels or films, based mainly on the dictates of Hollywood’s patriarchal studios.
Driven by my fascination with the flamboyant and the theatrical, my aim is to restore an authentic power to that metaphysical enigma — at once grotesque, beautiful and mysterious — that is femininity.
L.L.
2025 — ‘Eden Chaos’, Ninetto, Athens, Greece
2024 — ‘Shipwreck On The Milky Way’, performance in duo with Markos Mazarakis-Ainian, on an invitation by L.A.N.D ( Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2024 — ‘Death Of A Mermaid’, performance in duo with Markos Mazarakis-Ainian, on an invitation by Martha Kirszenbaum and Art Explora, Marseille, France
2024 — Promenons-Nous Dans Les Bois Pendant Que Le Loup N’y Est Pas! performance in duo with Markos Mazarakis-Ainian, on an invitation by Alkinois, Bageion Hôtel, Athens, Greece
2022 — Conte Du Cygne Et Sept Autres Histoires Extraordinaires, on an invitation by Victoire De Pourtalès, Château du Marais, Le Val Saint Germain, France
2021 — Mommie Dearest, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
2021 —Midnight Cinderella Sunrise Olympia, Athens, Greece
2021- La nuit étoilée ou la nuit sans étoiles, Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 - It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger, Night gallery, LA, USA
2018, Bons Baisers De La French Riviera, solo show, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers Nominated for the 20th price of the Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
2018, Sur Un Air de Wagner, New Galerie, Paris, France
2017, FlashBack, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, France
2017, She Was A Very Nice Girl, project on an invitation by Élodie Cazes, Roseanne, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2016, J’ai tout vu, j’ai tout su, et j’ai tout oublié, Song N.3 Hotel California, Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, France
2015, IT’S A GIRL!!! Performance on an invitation by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Paris, France
2015, Érébe, selected in competition Vidéo, Art et Essai at Festival, Côté Court, Pantin, France
2014, Madness Grandiosa, installation in an Abandoned House on an invitation by Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2014, Érébe ( short film-hd-16min-fiction-2013-Los Angeles) screening at The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2013, Rats and Barocco, The Impermanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012, Melancholic Sabbath, screening and performance with Evan Collins Conway, The Besant Lodge, Los Angeles, USA
Recent group shows
2025, Énormément Bizarre, Collection Jean Chatelus, exhibition organized by Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Annalisa Rimmaudo et Xavier Rey, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2024, Total Screen, exhibition organized by Theo Triantafyllidis, Itakis 28, Athènes, Greece
2023, Where the wild roses grow, Château de Schloss Goerne, Greece
2023, Circulus, exhibition organized by Colette Barbier, Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
2023, Kiaf, Galeria Duarte Sequiera, Seoul, South Korea
2022, Amphoreus, 91530 LE MARAIS, Le Val Saint Germain, France
2022, Oh I love Barbie, but I think she’s gotten really bad… She’s so suburban now, New Galerie, Paris, France
2021, Les Flammes, l’art vivant de la céramique, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de paris, Paris, France
2021, Canons, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
2021, She came to stay, Andrea Festa, Roma, Italy
2021, La Déesse Verte , Musée Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico, Mexico
2019, Les chemins du sud, MRAC Sérignan, Sérignan, France
2019, Léopoldine, Sans Titre, Paris, France