I am SELINI DEMETRIOU, born in Zurich in 1982 with dual citizenship CH/CY. Based in Winterthur CH and Naples IT
Analyzing, planning and building usable spaces that cover specific needs, dreams and feelings has been my main interest since childhood. I have pursued this fascination intensively throughout my life and have acquired a broad expertise in materials, crafts, colours, building materials, architectural development and visual arts. Now I am an independent Artist concerned with universal thoughts, such as thinking about time, duration, change and overall relationship between man and matter. I am interested in dialogue with material, their lives, story and wisdom. How stillness and movement find paradoxical simultaneous expression in material form and is unconsciously influencing us.
With PLICA EX PLICA I would like to contribute my complex knowledge and interior design expertise, meaningfully in architectural planning, in collaboration with architects, private individuals as Art Institutions. Well-being often lies in relationships with the surrounding things and people. Climate conditions, noise density, incidence of light, wind movements and other subtle influences are decisive for location formation / location identity. That is why my concepts are always based on a detailed analysis. Starting with the geographic point, local material, existing spatial structures, existing plans, historical research on the respective matters and described needs of the architects, curators, themes, users and builders. Structural spatial planning (master plan studies for specific objects), color and material concepts, selective designs (art in construction), Site-specific art, models and model photos for deliveries, analysis and concept booklets or texts can result.
My working methods are deep and always broadening and contiguous, contemplating. Many years of model construction also showed me how helpful and sensible project development based on working with models really is and I have adopted this method of working. It is worthwhile to try out theoretical concepts in terms of space and color or to refine them. The model is also suitable as a means of communication to get closer to commonly sought goals.
EDUCATION
2020 - 2023 Specialisation in sculpture (laurea magistrale) at The Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Napoli IT
2017 - 2020 BA Fine Arts, at The Zurich University of the Arts, ZHDK, Zurich CH
2014 - 2017 Part-time studies at the Haus der Farbe, Oerlikon, Zurich CH
1999 - 2003 Apprenticeship as furniture carpenter, building trade vocational school Zurich CH
Department of Restoration at Massimo Biondi, Zurich CH
WORK EXPERIENCE
2024 Guest critic at Bachelor Basics (Modelmaking Bascis - final exams) by Yves Dusseiller, HSLU Hochschule Luzern, Luzern CH
2023 Artistic assistance for Artist Jone Kwie, a monument in marble, San Giovanni Barra, Napoli IT
2023 Artistic assistance for Prof. Antonio del Giudice (Fonderia Nolana) in the realisation of Massi Erratici di Marisa Albanese, Napoli IT
2023 Assistent for Prof. Alberto Calderoni Corso di Studi Triennale Scienze dell‘Architettura (laboratorio A402), Departemento di Architettura Università degli Studenti di Napoli „Federico II“, Napoli IT
2021 Artistic assistance for Artist Christian Leperino, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Misericordia, Napoli IT
2020 Monument preservation with Artist Vera Marke, Appenzell CH
2004 - 2017 Model maker with Staufer&Hasler Architekten AG, Frauenfeld CH
ARTIST WEBSITE
selinidemetriou.com