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 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]