Vital Space is participating in Platforms Project - Independent Art Fair 2018, presenting the work of Danae Stratou "Upon the Earth, Under the Clouds", a site specific installation that was created for the Aisxylia Festival in 2017. The opening of Platforms Project 2018 - Independent Art Fair will take place on Thursday, May 17, 2018, at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. (Piraeus 256, TK 182 35 Agios Ioannis Rentis)
"New Horizons, From Jewelry to Sculpture"
Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum
Participation with the project: "Life Line"
The show hosts both jewelry designers and sculptors in an effort to explore the differences and/or similarities in a unique approach of each discipline. I decided to utilize one of the museum’s walls installed with hollow show case windows as a landscape and to "connect" them through a common horizon, in other words, a life line. The work consists of ten plexiglass hollow cubes, (missing the front side), installed in the show case windows of the museum's wall. On the back side of the cubes the image of a seascape horizon is featured, which runs trough dissecting all ten cubes at the same level. At that level, a silver threaded chain is weaved through permeating the sides of the cubes, thus creating a three dimensional "horizon" plane which expands all the way to the edge of the cube and gives the sense of .continuity
Exhibition Opening: May 23rd at 7:00 pm
Exhibition Duration: May 23rd to August 23rd 2017
Museum Location: Kallisperi 12 & Karyatidon Str., Acropolis 11742, Athens, Greece
Museum Hours: Tuesday - Friday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm / Sunday 11:00 am to 4:00 pm / Monday closed
Vital Space Open Call: Majorca
"It's Time to Open The Black Boxes!"
OPEN CALL: Participate with one word
Send us the One word that best expresses that which currently:
- Frightens or threatens you the most
- You believe is in urgent need of protection
The words gathered through this call will be used by visual artist Danae Stratou in the creation of an artistic intervention-installation which will be presented at the Museo de Santo Domingo at Pollença, Mallorca, Spain, from July 17th to September 30th.
The words will be revealed when the “Black Boxes” are opened...
More about the project:
The project IT'S TIME TO OPEN THE BLACK BOXES! is a participatory art project initiated by artist Danae Stratou. Living in Europe in this time of multiple crises, it is ever so easy to fall into a state of fear-induced paralysis. This art project is a reaction to such a prospect. Danae Stratou, invites you to actively participate in the project by contributing one word. By joining our “voices”, the project aims at activating a dialogue constituting, in itself, a collective response to our multifaceted predicament. By opening the ‘Black Boxes’ we symbolically bring to light the words that reflect what threatens us the most, or that which we are desperately eager to preserve.
The project was inaugurated in Athens, Greece, (2012). It has since travelled in Krems, Austria, (2016) and in Paris, France, (2017). The open call cycle is reactivated each time the project travels in a new city for a period of 1-3 months prior to each exhibition. Through the website, a wide range of social media and conventional local media; local communities are invited to participate. In this way the Black Boxes, when opened in each different city, reveal local concerns, hopes and fears in a manner that, nevertheless, bind the different cities together.
