A series of four large C prints on Plexiglas installed at the Aegina island Fish Market. The photographs depict images from various fish and food markets from around the world which Danae Stratou has taken during her travels. […]
Merimbula was originally presented in the context of Danae Stratou’s solo show titled Burning Issues – Merimbula. Curated by Christoforos Marinos and organised by the City of Athens Culture, Sports and Youth Organisation (OPANDA), the show was hosted at The City of Athens Art Centre, in Parko Eleftherias (Freedom Park), Athens, Greece from 25 May […]
UPCOMING SHOW FLOWERS GREECE – HOLLAND On the occasion of the upcoming show FLOWERS, I am pleased to announce my new collaboration with Kappatos Gallery In the context of this work, Danae Stratou photographs flowers in Greece and flowers in the Netherlands. Flowers symbolise the opposite of force. Flower power was, in the 1960s, a rejoinder to killing fields. A […]
AUCTION PARTICIPATION Artists for DiEM25 I am proud to be among an amazing group of artists who are donating work to support the grassroots Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. We are delighted to launch DiEM25´s online auction in partnership with paddle8, Artists for DiEM25, raising funds for DiEM25’s historic campaign to bring democracy and humanity back to Europe. Across […]
Cut – 7 dividing lines comprises seven pairs of photographs printed on large transparencies which were set opposite each other in order to create a visual pathway. The artist travelled in seven fault lines around the world capturing on photographic stills the two sides of each division. The trips were realized in the year of […]
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 […]
Texans like to project an image of no non-sense pragmatism. The Lone Star (the state’s symbol) is supposed to shine a bright light on an oil rich, cattle-raising rugged land that yields riches by the grace of the Almighty. And yet when I moved to Austin, I discovered that behind that ‘straight’, pious image that […]
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 […]