Danae’s work embraces both the sea and the mountains. Her paintings are an amalgamation of those landscapes, together with elements from urban society. While she preserves figurative elements from those landscapes, she partly surrenders to abstraction, creating eerie topographies that are both natural and sites of manifestation of culture and heritage. In Danae’s work, the Cypriot landscape is rendered symbolic to our “common ground” for both the Turkish speaking and Greek speaking communities of the island, where man-made borders are rendered insignificant compared to the grandeur and sublimity of our common landscape. Both the paintings, and the found natural objects, like seashells she collects and places in the exhibition, are signifying a mutual linage and a transcending connection of the inhabitants of the island, since the land, soil and sea know no borders.

Ioulita ToumaziArt Theorist, Curator, Writer