So near, so far, 2002
Studied sculpture at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London. Her work consists of large-scale installations and audiovisual environments. She uses various media, ranging from digital and audio technology, video, photography to metal, or natural materials. The artist uses a minimal, geometric visual language and engages in contemporary issues such as immigration, life in contemporary cities, the population boom, the relation to the environment, as well as political and social tensions worldwide. Representative of her work are projects such as Desert Breath (1997), one of the largest land art installations worldwide, situated in the Sahara Desert; The River of Life (2004), a video installation capturing the flow and rhythm of the world’s seven largest rivers, and Cut – 7 Dividing Lines (2007), a photographic installation that investigates the connections between politically or religiously divided parts of the world
In this work Stratou presents, by means of photograph, the transposition from one scale of the microcosm, with the waters of the Voidomatis, to the macrocosm, with a view of the mountain opposite Papigo. The presentation of the work from a circular or spiral development, ends in the displaying of the landscape on the floor of a museum room. There it is unfolded, the walking done over her own personal course along the Voidomatis. Her concern is to have the spectator in moving perceiving things from a walker's perpective, revealing the course the artist herself followed in this specific space. She wanted to present the images of nature by means of a chronological structure.
Τhe work was created for the exhibition 'Sketching out Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday. Young Greek Artists: A tribute to Prefecture of Yiannena".' held at the Averoff Museum of Modern art, at Metsovo in 2002.