CHARITINI Gkritzali
Master of Advanced Studies IN DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Product Design / Interior Architecture / Furniture
My location: Athens, Greece
CHARITINI Gkritzali
First Name: CHARITINI
Last Name: Gkritzali
University / College: ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne
Course / Program: Master of Advanced Studies IN DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Product Design / Interior Architecture / Furniture
My Location: Athens, Greece
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About
Charitini Gkritzali is a designer and architect from Athens, Greece. She holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship from École Cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ÉCAL), Switzerland. In 2018 she also received a Diploma of Architectural Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and has then taken scenography classes at the National Theater of Greece. To pursue further her interest in design, she worked on high-end design projects for studios and firms based in Athens, Stockholm and Geneva. Her design practice revolves around humans, objects, surrounding spaces and everything in between. Through her unique visual language that is defined by solid geometrical shapes, architectural volumes and harmonious colours, she aims to create stories that balance between the familiar and the extraordinary.
Following the project’s brief to photograph objects in a professional photo studio as well as in common interior and exterior enviroments, “Body Parts” aims to portray human parts as common unchanging objects. Each photograph narrates a different story. The hands, feet and heads become parts of sculptural painting-like compositions, urban everyday elements or familiar interior scenes. The body parts act as autonomous objects, completely separated from the rest of the body and intergrated in their surrounding space. The result is a series of images that a surreal but poetic element.