Despina Charitonidi

Despina Charitonidi (b. 1991) is a sculptor and performer who lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Italy and the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht in the Netherlands. Charitonidi’s work leans towards a tendency to strip-down natural and primary elements found in urban construction sites. Her work focuses on reforming and transmuting these materials through a process of examining and experimenting with their properties. The results unveil a number of sculptural gestures that holistically reconsider man’s environmental interference....