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The Imagine Wall
Work Category 2: Urban
City Particles
The images used in this video were taken by Danae Stratou during her 6 month stay in Istanbul in 2010 for the purpose of realising her project Vital Space (Humanity) – Istanbul. During her stay she regularly flew over the city by helicopter. All the images used in this video were chosen from the aerial shots she […]
Liquid Banks
Like temples, banks appear to us as our cities’ most impressive and lavish edifices. Like temples, banks derive their authority from an immaterial faith in some indeterminate, mysterious, all-powerful force: divinity in the case of temples, liquid value in the case of banks. And just like nothing threatens false gods more than being exposed, banks […]
VS Nature | Humanity
Vital Space: Nature | Humanity is an ongoing project in progress. In its totality, the project raises questions regarding humanity’s current path and, in particular, the ways in which the great economic meltdown of our times combines with the looming environmental crisis to procure the future’s challenges. Vital Space is a video project to be realised in […]
Javelin | Vertical
Sculptural Installation, created in Athens, Greece, 1994. Javelin (vertical) is custom made out of a 4cm thick aluminum rod, 600cm in height and hangs from the ceiling, just millimeters above a central water feature. The water vessel is surrounded by a 200cm circle, filled with black heavy mineral sand, forming concentric circles/ripples at the same level […]
Curve
Two stainless steel sheets of identical length and width. The One, 3mm thick, finished in a mirrored surface and placed on the floor. The other, 10 mm thick, is curved and placed giving the impression of elevating from its own “reflection” on the floor. Part of the Collection of the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece. […]
Inverted Cone
Sculpture, part of a private collection. Created in Athens, Greece, 1989. […]
Eyelogues
A 4-channel video installation created in the summer of 1999 and shown as part of an exhibition entitled Video Show curated by a group of Greek artists. It took place in the windows of the electrical shop district in the old commercial center of Athens (on Dragatsaniou street), Greece. Two actors performed a “silent dialogue” […]