The
fascination she had as a little girl for her grandfather’s
chemistry lab has been later translated into a design process built on
material exploration and experimentation.
Having
spent a large amount of her childhood in the heart of Transylvanya’s natural landscape has had an impact on her work and life. Through
her pieces, she tries to emulate the dynamics found in nature, such as
the movement of the clouds and water.
In
her teenage years Catrinel studied Graphics at the Fine Arts
HighSchool in Cluj, Romania. She later pivoted towards 3D objects and
studied Product Design at the Univesity of Edinburgh and Lund
University in Sweden.
In
2016 she started
working for an artist she highly admired, Nacho Carbonell, in
Eindhoven. This experience would lead her to start searching for a
more personal approach to product design.
However
it was only one year later, during her Bachelor project, that this
process of
self-discovery
developed into tangible objects: THISorder,
a series of objects that embodies entropy through materialized time
based installations.
THISorder
consisted of URMA Clock and Mira lamp.URMA
(an
alternative clock)
displays the passage of time in an
organic manner, as a continuous change of phase.
The
series was exhibited at New Designers in London.
The designer experimented also with art installations:
Catrinel took part in Our Nature, a special Residency Program aimed
at connecting Eastern and Western Europe through science, technology
and the arts. The project, held in Trieste in 2018, involved young
artists and designers from Romania and the main scientific
institutions of Trieste.On
that occasion, Catrinel
developed
Timescapes: From
Clocks to Outerspace, an installation comprised of three types of pendulums: Human, Geological
and Astral. Their movements, all different from one another, pattern
the temporal landscape of the space they refer to.
After
graduation, in 2019 she founded
Catrinel S.tudio and launched Morfoza:
light & color out of
this world, a lamp light
using
the
spectrum
to
create mesmerizing light effects,
and Aurora
Clock, inspired by The Northern
Lights movement. Since then, her
work as been shown at Dutch Design Week, The National Galleries of
Scotland, Passajen Interior Design Week Koln, and
featured in articles by DesignWanted and
Al-tiba9 etc.
