Concentric is a kinetic water installation by Danae Stratou. This is the 1st edition of the work as a permanent installation located at Nirox Sculpture Park. The lake in which it is situated is approximately 100 metres in diameter and about 2 metres in depth at the central point. Concentric utilises a simple, underwater device […]
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. […]
ICESONGS2 comprises a video & sound work which emerged from the site-specific installation ICESONGS created by Danae Stratou and presented at La Verriere, the exhibition space of the Fondation d’ Enterprise Hermes, in Brussels in 2010. The most powerful element of the project was the astounding soundscape which had generated from sounds coming directly from the Antarctic Ocean […]
Concentric Video was produced by the 6 documentation video’s depicting the site-specific water installation CONCENTRIC by Danae Stratou. The physical installation is located in a lake at Nirox Sculpture Park since January 2019. […]
A river generates life in the land it travels through… The River of Life is a video installation comprising seven 30’ films simultaneously projected in a specially constructed circular space of 26ft Diameter. Commissioned by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture as an acquisition for the permanent collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]