Seven major terrestrial rivers: The Danube, the Nile, the Amazon, the Mississippi, the Niger, the Yangtze and the Ganges. I travelled for ten months following the flow of these seven major rivers around the world and dedicated about two years to the completion of my project «The River Of Life» – a video installation comissioned by […]
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 […]
A site-specific installation by Danae and Alexandra Stratou for D.A.ST. Arteam (Danae Stratou, Alexandra Stratou, Stella Konstantinidis). Exhibited in the Group Exhibition: Women Creators of the Two Seas – the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, organised by: Unesco & Thessaloniki in 1997 Cultural Capital of Europe, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997. […]
Vital Space – Athens is a video work comprising two films from the city of Athens. 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 […]
CYPRUS: GREEN LINE | KOSOVO: NORTH-SOUTH MITROVICA | N. IRELAND: BELFAST | ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: BADME | WEST BANK- PALESTINE: WALL | INDIAN-PAKISTANI ADMINISTERED KASHMIR: LINE OF CONTROL | 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 […]
PROJECT HISTORY This project is a response to the pressing issues of our times. Greece, Europe and indeed the World are experiencing multiple crises – economic, social, political, environmental. IT’S TIME TO OPEN THE BLACK BOXES! is an ongoing participatory art project initiated in 2012 by the Greek artist Danae Stratou. Living in Greece in […]
The Soma, The Psyche, The Spirit, The Self is a video installation projected on two facing freestanding walls. It comprises two counter-opposed projections, mirroring one another, and depicting the figure of a Shaolin monk, in his traditional orange robe, moving in from a distance. The two images differ only in that the one is a […]
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 […]
Water Perspective was created for, and presented in the Greek Pavilion, at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999. It is comprised of a perpendicular video projection which only becomes visible through the openings of 936 square sectioned aluminium tubes (10cm X 10cm X 3.30m), placed next to and above each other, creating a cube which functions as a […]
A site-specific installation, as part of the exhibition Women Creators of the Two Seas, organized by Unesco in the context of the Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997. Entering the vast derelict warehouse adjacent to the sea on the port of Thessaloniki there were two dominant elements in my mind’s eye. One was the water so […]