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Having grown up in an artistic family environment, it was almost impossible for her not to follow the same path. Apart from fine art movements, Charaktinou draws inspiration from the tales of the Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, German cinematic expressionism, the books of Gabriel García Márquez, Boris Vian, Jean Baudrillard, the poems of Joyce Mansour and other surrealists, theories of quantum physics and sacred geometry. The material that she admires and prevails in her artworks is paper. Obsessed with the delicacy and lightness of the material and its ability to transform into …