Concentric Art Video by Danae Stratou was produced by re-editing 6 short documentation videos depicting the kinetic water installation Concentric at Nirox Sculpture Park from dawn to dusk. The site-specific long-term installation is located in a 90-metre-diameter lake at Nirox Sculpture Park in Krugersdorp, South Africa 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, […]
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 […]
Vital Space – Istanbul is a video installation comprising two films from the city of Istanbul. One film offers a bird eye’s view of different paths connecting order and disorder, centre and suburb, privilege and dispossession, formal and informal. The second film captures from ground level a sea of people coming toward the camera in sequences […]
Vital Space – Athens is a video work comprising two films from the city of Athens. One film offers a bird eye’s view of different paths connecting order and disorder, centre and suburb, privilege and dispossession, formal and informal. The second film captures from ground level a sea of people coming toward the camera in […]
The Globalising Wall III is a special edition of The Globalising Wall’s original video created for screenings in auditoriums or screen presentations. This version comes with a new original score composed by composer Ada Pitsou. CYPRUS: GREEN LINE, KOSOVO: NORTH-SOUTH MITROVICA, N. IRELAND: BELFAST, ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: BADME, WEST BANK, PALESTINE: WALL, INDIAN-PAKISTANI ADMINISTERED KASHMIR: LINE OF […]
CYPRUS: GREEN LINE | KOSOVO: NORTH-SOUTH MITROVICA | N. IRELAND: BELFAST | ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: BADME | WEST BANK- PALESTINE: WALL | INDIAN-PAKISTANI ADMINISTERED KASHMIR: LINE OF CONTROL | MEXICO-USA: BORDER FENCE Walls have a longstanding relation both with liberty from fear and subjugation to another’s will. After 1945, walls acquired an unprecedented determination to divide. They […]
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 […]