About the author
Catia Clou is an artist and poet living and working in Paris. Laureate of Vox Catoblepae 2025.
In her practice she engages with memory, space, embodiment, and everyday experience, exploring how personal experience interacts with historical and social context. Catia works with text and visual imagery in collage techniques.
Education
- N.K. Roerich Art School, design in architectural-spatial environment.
- I.E. Repin Academy of Arts, art history department.
- Sorbonne, MA in French literature.
Artist Statement
What remains of a person when political regimes and countries change? How do personal memory and generational memory relate? Where is the boundary between one’s own and the other? How does embodied experience shape the construction of world perception?
These questions accompany me throughout my life and become the basis of my artistic practice.
My texts and visual works are a kind of carpet woven from images, rhythms, accelerations, and pauses. Fragmentation here is not rupture, but a way of thinking and experiencing reality — an opportunity to stop and feel a fleeting moment.
For me, art is Janus, the two-faced god, turned simultaneously toward the past and the future. It is a safe space for asking difficult questions, for doubt, and for exploring what has no unambiguous answers.
Awards
- Vox Catoblepae 2025