Selected installations & moving image projects

Installations

Topology

An installation investigating spatial perception through the projection of a time-lapse sequence.
By projecting the evolving view of a space back into its architectural context, the work creates a layered experience of presence and delay.

The projected image becomes both window and surface — questioning how space is registered, remembered, and re-encountered.

arboreal

Rear projection on tracing paper.

Projected foliage emerges through translucent surfaces, suspended between visibility and dissolution. The tracing paper diffuses the image, creating a fragile spatial layer that shifts between presence and disappearance.

The installation examines how natural forms can be reconstituted as spatial experience through light.

beyond atmospheres

Beyond Atmospheres was a spatial investigation into the construction of spiritual environments through light, projection, and material intervention. The exhibition examined how immaterial states — elevation, passage, contemplation, suspension — can be translated into architectural experience.

Rather than presenting images as representation, the works treated light as spatial substance. Translucent fabric, darkness, distance, and vertical framing were used to dissolve the boundary between image and structure. Each installation functioned as a distinct spatial condition, yet together they formed a progression: from suspension, to passage, to ritual architecture.

The exhibition explored how projection can generate environments that are not illustrative, but experiential — spaces that invite presence rather than spectacle.

The three installations were constructed as spatial experiments examining how light, sound, and architectural configuration shape emotional and perceptual experience.

1 - Rear projection on suspended translucent fabric.

Moving images of sky and arboreal forms were projected onto suspended fabric volumes, transforming the ceiling into a shifting atmospheric terrain. The installation positioned the viewer beneath a floating landscape of light.

2 - Black fabric installation with distant light source.

A narrow, darkened passage constructed from layered black fabric directed the viewer toward a subtle light at its end. The work examined spatial compression, anticipation, and the psychology of transition.

3 - Site-constructed installation with vertical projection.

A church-like spatial configuration structured through vertical framing and controlled light. The installation explored ritual orientation, symmetry, and the architectural language of contemplation.

Labyrinth: A Sacred Path

Audiovisual interactive installation

Concept

Labyrinth: A Sacred Path was an immersive, multi-sensory installation examining ritual passage through spatial design. Visitors entered complete darkness and navigated a spiral path constructed not to disorient, but to guide.

The labyrinth functioned as a silent architecture of transition — leading participants inward toward a central space of illumination. Rather than confusion, the spiral structure created gradual orientation through movement, sound, and sensory awareness.

The work engaged multiple senses. Natural soundscapes — wind, thunder, storms, leaves — intensified the atmosphere of immersion. A subtle scent of forest and decay was introduced to activate memory and bodily perception. Within the darkness, candles on the floor provided minimal orientation, while projections of smoke and layered moving water were cast onto suspended fabric surfaces.

At the centre, a cloud-like fabric volume hovered above a space large enough for visitors to lie down. Water imagery, layered beneath ice-like textures, unfolded overhead — transforming the ceiling into a contemplative field of motion.

The installation investigated how darkness, sensory stimulation, and guided spatial movement can produce introspection. It examined the labyrinth not as a maze of confusion, but as an architecture of inward passage.

moving image

A Quiet Scene

Roger Eno & Brian Eno
Video artist
Premiered at Los Angeles Music Center, 2021
International tour

Description

A Quiet Scene was a large-scale audiovisual live performance presenting the album Mixing Colours. As video artist for the production, Dermatopoulou developed projected visual environments designed to accompany the live performance.

The work examined restraint, atmosphere, and slow visual transformation — aligning moving image with tonal minimalism. The projections were conceived as spatial extensions of sound, functioning as immersive visual fields rather than illustrative backdrops.

The production premiered at the Los Angeles Music Center and subsequently toured internationally.

The Rolling Donut

Short film
Official Selection, Johnny Walker Prize, Edinburgh International Film Festival (2019)

The Rolling Donut is a short moving image work exploring repetition, circularity, and subtle absurdity through minimalist visual structure. The film examines rhythm and spatial framing, using restrained composition and temporal pacing to create quiet tension within the frame.

The work was selected for the Johnny Walker Prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2019.

Unsettle

Experimental short film
Official Selection, Take Off Film Festival

Unsettle explores the fragile boundary between balance and disturbance. Through restrained visual structure and temporal pacing, the film constructs a controlled yet unstable atmosphere, inviting the viewer into a space of quiet disorientation.

The selection at the Take Off Film Festival marked the work’s recognition within an international experimental context.