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Danae Stratou: Afales | Navels
Site-specific show on people and nature: a disc of raw salt, a light sculpture of the Moon in real phases, and Breathe (2000).
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A disc of raw salt 16 metres across lies on the floor of the Megaron's Service Yard, tracing the Moon's path around the Earth. Beside it, a scaled Moon called Selene seems to float, lit to follow the real lunar phases. Check the sky on your way in: the Moon inside matches it.
Danae Stratou built the show for this yard around her mother, the sculptor and poet Eleni Potaga. Two works enlarge one white pebble from Afales beach on Ithaca, in resin and in metal. Odysseus spent ten years getting back to Ithaca; this pebble left it for a service yard off Vasilissis Sofias. Breathe (2000), lent by EMST, is a bed of earth that a mechanism lifts and lowers.
It suits anyone who would rather look at salt, soil and light than at paintings. Entry is free, through the Megaron car park on Kokkali Street. On Thursdays it stays open until 21:00, and the artist or the curator leads a 45-minute tour at 18:00, booked online.
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Tidal Ellipse
Look for the 16-metre disc of raw salt on the yard floor, laid out as the Moon's orbit around the Earth.
Selene
A scaled Moon that appears to float in the yard, its programmed light following the real lunar phases as they happen.
Afales I and Afales II
One white pebble from Ithaca's Afales beach, enlarged by 3D scanning and cast twice, in resin and in metal; the title plays on afalos, the navel.
Breathe (2000)
Lent by EMST, a surface of earth with light and sound that a mechanism raises and lowers like a tide or a breath.
Lunar Phases
A photographic record of moonrises that Stratou gathered over three years.
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Crediti fotografici
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- Danae Stratou: Afales | NavelsCourtesy of Megaron Athens Concert Hall (annexM)
- Eugenia Vereli, Cycladic Café Art ProjectPhoto: Yannis Kouskoutis, © Museum of Cycladic Art
- An Ode to Things. Niki Kanagini. RetrospectiveCourtesy of EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art
- Gen X: Tales from the Forgotten GenerationCourtesy of DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art (Athens)
- Megaron Athens Concert Hall (annexM)StrangeTraveler / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum (Central Building)Osenji / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Byzantine and Christian MuseumG.dallorto / Wikimedia Commons
- EMST National Museum of Contemporary ArtEMST Athens / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0