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Carpet Beater Carpet (175 x 255cm), 2022; Background Hum, 2020; Background Hum, 2022;
Tufted wool carpets, landscape wallpaper on MDF
Photography Dirk Pauwels





Kato Six at M Leuven
2022

M Leuven

For this first comprehensive exhibition, Kato Six brings together several works for the first time. In addition to existing sculptures and drawings, she presents a new series of textile works for which she ventured into tufting, a 1950s technique for making carpets. Those works feature the curling shape of a carpet beater. A form that, like her landscapes, crochet patterns or geometric compositions—she borrows from collective memory. These works aim to make us reflect on the everyday or on elements from our everyday environment; to make us look differently, and possibly discover new patterns.

Curated by Eva Wittocx

Carpet Beater Carpet (175 x 255cm), 2022
Tufted wool carpets
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


Carpet Beater Carpet (175 x 255cm), 2022
Tufted wool carpets
Photography Dirk Pauwels


Background Hum (Ouer Hebrides), 2020; Background Hum (Isle of Skye), 2022; Background Hum (dust), 2022;
Landscape wallpaper on MDF, dust from coloured MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


Spinning Lines, Twisting Thoughts, 2017; State of Matter (dust), 2022; 
Solid surface, dust from black MDF
Photography Dirk Pauwels


Background Hum (Outer Hebrides), 2020; State of Matter (dust), 2022;
Landscape wallpaper on MDF, dust from black MDF
Photography Dirk Pauwels


Background Hum (Outer Hebrides), 2020
Landscape wallpaper on MDF
Photography Dirk Pauwels


Background Hum (Outer Hebrides), 2020
Landscape wallpaper on MDF
Photography Dirk Pauwels


Background Hum (Isle of Skye), 2022
Landscape wallpaper on MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


State of Matter (rope), 2019
300m of cotton rope
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


State of Matter (rope), 2019
300m of cotton rope
Photography Dirk Pauwels


Spinning Lines, Twisting Thoughts (rope), 2017
300m of cotton rope
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


State of Matter (dust), 2019
Dust from coloured MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


State of Matter (dust), 2019
Dust from coloured MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky

Carpet Beater Carpet (175 x 255cm), 2022; State of Matter, 2019;
Tufted wool carpets, 300m cotton rope
Photography Dirk Pauwels



Carpet Beater Carpet (175 x 255cm), 2022; Spinning Lines, Twisting Thougts, 2017; State of Matter, 2019;
Tufted wool carpets, solid surface, 300m cotton rope
Photography Dirk Pauwels


Carpet Beater Carpet (175 x 255cm), 2022; Background Hum, 2020; Spinning Lines, Twisting Thoughts, 2017; State of Matter, 2019;
Tufted wool carpets, landscape wallpaper on MDF, solid surface, 300m cotton rope
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


Background Hum (Isle of Skye), 2022; Background Hum (dust), 2022;
Landscape wallpaper on MDF, dust from coloured MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


Background Hum (Isle of Skye), 2022; Background Hum (dust), 2022;
Landscape wallpaper on MDF, dust from coloured MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


Spinning Lines, Twisting Thoughts, 2017; State of Matter (dust), 2022; 
Solid surface, dust from black and coloured MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


Background Hum (Outer Hebrides), 2020
Landscape wallpaper on MDF
Photography Dirk Pauwels


Background Hum (Outer Hebrides), 2020
Landscape wallpaper on MDF
Photography Dirk Pauwels


Background Hum (Isle of Skye), 2022
Landscape wallpaper on MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


Background Hum (Isle of Skye), 2022
Landscape wallpaper on MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


State of Matter (rope), 2019
300m of cotton rope
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


Spinning Lines, Twisting Thoughts (rope), 2017
300m of cotton rope
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


State of Matter (dust), 2019
Dust from black MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky


State of Matter (dust), 2019
Dust from coloured MDF
Photography Lola Pertsowsky