Walls, real and symbolical, visible and invisible, are raised everywhere around us. They are intertwined with the geography of a place, its political identity, with its history and many of its cultural claims . Equal importance has “the geography of souls”. These walls, which are raised by the human psyche and are sometimes used as […]
Marking the opening of the Aeschylia Festival, the installation was presented at the Old Oil Mill of Eleusis from June – November 2017. 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 materials and ceramic pots […]
A site specific installation by Danae Stratou, 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 and hollowed out spinning mill factory within the larger (and […]
Danae Stratou participated, with the installation Memory Threads, in the international exhibition A Letter to the Future of the EKO 8 triennial, which openned on 21 May 2021. The venue of the exhibition was the former textile factory in Melje, Maribor, Slovenia. Artistic Director: Alessandro Vincentelli. This site-specific installation is based on the first version of the installation Memory Threads which took place […]
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 […]
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 […]