Breathing Circle a site specific installation by Danae Stratou. Seven large stainless steel letters compose the imperative of the verb “BREATHE”. Forming a perfect circle on the ground, their mirrored surfaces reflect the surrounding natural environment. The letters have a length of one metre and are placed equidistantly upon the perimeter of an imaginary circle 7 metres […]
PARALLEL CITY is a site specific, interactive installation, which consists of 28 “optical viewfinders”. Planted equivalently in 28 different spots of the city’s old center, the viewfinders, act as intimate private frames through which the viewer can accomplish a different experience of the City. The viewing through the view finders along the chosen route, isolates certain […]
The images used in this video were taken by Danae Stratou during her 6 month stay in Istanbul in 2010 for the purpose of realising her project Vital Space (Humanity) – Istanbul. During her stay she regularly flew over the city by helicopter. All the images used in this video were chosen from the aerial shots she […]
Soul Forest is a photographic installation comprising seven freestanding photographic “sculptures” depicting a forest from the highlands of Indian Kashmir. The photographs were taken by Danae Stratou in 2005, when she was travelling along the Line Of Control between Indian and Pakistani Cashmir, in order to reach and photographically document moments from everyday life along the Line […]
An Installation comprising 13 photographs adhered on the Museums’ floor. The photographs were taken during on a road trip in the area surrounding Voidomatis River and the mountains around it which leads to the village of Metsovo in Northern Greece. (2002) […]
Airport Entrance Project “To travel hopefully…” air travellers are welcomed into and out of Austin through a dynamic elliptical structure carved out of, and into, Texas’ primordial elements: its Sky and its Earth. I sought to utilise the same textures, principles and materials that I have always used in my work and to combine them with local, Austin-based, expertise in the […]
Like temples, banks appear to us as our cities’ most impressive and lavish edifices. Like temples, banks derive their authority from an immaterial faith in some indeterminate, mysterious, all-powerful force: divinity in the case of temples, liquid value in the case of banks. And just like nothing threatens false gods more than being exposed, banks […]
The proposal that follows was the result of a careful study of the specific site, as well as the broader Upper Guadalupe River area. My aim for this Earthwork is to respect but also to accentuate, to celebrate and at once embrace, the innate qualities of this remarkable landscape. RIVERLAND is a land art project that […]
In the context of the: Outdoor Artistic Interventions – Project To take place within the greater sea area in the delta of the rivers: Axios – Loudias – Aliakmonas in Northern Greece In a time of major confluence of economic and environmental crises, contemporary art, especially when it takes place in public spaces and is designed to […]