Daphné Charitos
°1996, Spain
Born in 1996, Daphné Charitos currently lives and works in Brussels. Due to her multiple nationalities, being both French and Greek, along with the many years she spent abroad (in Greece, the United Arab Emirates and France), she approaches the art field with a natural openness and a deep curiosity for all forms of cultural expression. In 2020, she graduated with a Master in Cultural Management at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Her Master's thesis focused on established and emerging artists living in Brussels and enabled her to conduct several interviews on the various factors that have contributed to the development of their practice and their careers. This research confirmed her wish to work in close contact with artists and led her to reflect on fundamental questions linked to the labour market and its power dynamics, one of the issues she wishes to address in her curatorial project.
Before starting the Curatorial Studies postgraduate programme at KASK, she worked for three years at the gallery Jan Mot, in Brussels. Through this experience and her personal research, she developed a great interest for conceptual art and its legacies as well as practices linked to memory, language, time, intimacy, and vulnerability. She has a natural affinity for film in all its forms, particularly its use by women artists in the late 1960s and early 1970s. With an intergenerational approach and a natural interest for the archive, one of her aims would be to research the practices of the Greek avant-garde and put them into dialogue with the Greek contemporary art scene.