This work was originally installed and shown at an old warehouse in Athens, near the docks. This is a very interesting, industrial area, which is a natural junction between the city and the sea. Both the installations Breathe and Water Section develop a dialectic relationship with the space. The one space prepares you to enter […]
See Through is a photographic installation which was exhibited at Zoumboulakis Galleries and comprises imagery derived from a ten month trip along seven major terrestrial rivers: The Danube, the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi, the Niger, the Yangtze and the Ganges. With this project, the artist aims to share an experience that enriches and deepens awareness […]
Cut – 7 dividing lines was exhibited in Athens at Zoumboulakis Galleries, in the context of, and parallel to the group exhibition Grey, hosted by the House of Cyprus in collaboration with Rethymnon Contemporary Art Centre (RCA). Participating artists were coming from both Greece and Cyprus. Cut – 7 dividing lines comprises seven pairs of photographs printed […]
Breathing Circle a site specific installation which took place at Sani Festival in Halkidiki in collaboration with the Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art. It comprised of seven, 3 Dimensional mirrored stainless steel letters placed in a circular order forming the word Breathe. The natural incline of the ground was calculated so that each letter was partly […]
Icesongs. La Verriere Fondation D’ Enterprise Hermes. Brussels, Belgium. Curator: Alice Morgaine. Icesongs was a site specific multimedia installation comprising a 20′ sound-scape, a floor piece and the the element of water. The composition derived from sounds captured by underwater water microphones existing on the seabed of the Antarctic, used by researchers for monitoring Antarctica’s […]
The River of Life is a video installation comprising seven 30’ films. It was originally created for and presented at the international exhibition Transcultures (organised by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, (EMST), Athens, Greece). The Project was presented for the second time at the Old Bath House of the Winds in Plaka. For the purposes of this show […]
Vital Space – Istanbul is a video installation comprising two films from the city of Istanbul. One film offers a bird eye’s view of different paths connecting order and disorder, centre and suburb, privilege and dispossession, formal and informal. The second film captures from ground level a sea of people coming toward the camera in sequences […]
This installation is an ongoing participatory art project initiated by artist Danae Stratou. Living in Greece in a time of multiple crises, it is ever so easy to fall into a state of fear-induced paralysis. This art project was a reaction to such a prospect. The first version of the project took shape and was shown […]
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CYPRUS: GREEN LINE | KOSOVO: NORTH – SOUTH MITROVICA | N. IRELAND: BELFAST | WEST BANK: PALESTINE | MEXICO – USA: BORDER FENCE. Walls have a longstanding relation both with liberty from fear and subjugation to another’s will. After 1945, walls acquired an unprecedented determination to divide. They spread like a bushfire from Berlin to […]
As part of the LBJ School of Public Affairs’ Conference NAFTA+20 – An Assessment of Intended and Unintended Effects, visual artist Danae Stratou presented a special edition of her project The Globalising Wall. The work took the form of a photographic installation at the Auditorium’s entrance area focusing on the US–Mexican border and featuring a sequence of about 50 photographs of the Border […]
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