Upon entering the space, a primal songlike sound attacks the senses. At first it resembles electronic music; or some mysterious voice, like that of whales. It is the sound of icebergs edges, as they move, break, melt or collide against each other. A square, shallow water tank, located centrally in the space, is fully filled. […]
The Video work is based on the site specific installation Memory Threads by Danae Stratou which was realised in one of the old textile factories of PIRAÏKI – PATRAÏKI in Patras, in the context of the wider project: “Patras, the City of Factories, Rebetiko and Karagiozis”. This ephemeral installation was realised in an old derelict […]
The video work aims at capturing the experience and the essence of the ephemeral site-specific installation Upon the Earth Under the Clouds as one walked through it. Upon the Earth Under the Clouds is a large-scale site-specific installation conceived for the Old Mill and the city of Eleusis. Using water and soil as its core […]
“Deep within the ground there are caverns and tunnels and ways for the sacred energy to travel. Earth inhales and exhales just as we do; sacred life energy moves within her body as it does in ours.” Hopi Indians “Deep within the ground there are caverns and tunnels and ways for the sacred energy to […]
The exhibition SCARECROW took place in an old vineyard in the north of Greece at the foot of St. Nichola’s monastery in Metsovo in June 2006. INTROSPEC is a site specific out door installation created in situ. A 15 meter long path was dug into the steep side of the hill shadowed by trees. Its […]
Venice is a place were one becomes constantly aware of the tension created between the elements; Water and Land… The work was inspired by and created on site in Lido-Venice for the outdoor international exhibition OPEN 2000. Nine earth cubes, 2m X 2m each, were created on a strip of land covering an area of […]
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. […]
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 […]