Maria Lalou is a Greek contemporary conceptual artist, experimental filmmaker, architectural researcher, critical thinker and scholar. She explores the topic of viewing, incorporating cinematic apparatus and surveillance as part of her tools, with central references to the politics of the viewer. Her works negotiate about the notion of 'viewing' as a civic negotiation, by the means of a performative act, an active presence, an empirical duration, a filmic artefact and a political statement. Her artworks are on the edge of social experiments and practised rhetorics by staging art installations on the steps of theory of the spectacle. She includes the viewer's perspective in the completion of the works' significance, dividing her audiences into a specific audience as the chosen viewers participating in her works and a casual audience as the invited public to experience the works, results she has directed with the contribution of significant others. On the strong conceptual tracks that Stephen Willats has marked, her artistic practise is based on cognitive models in the spectrum installation art, performance art, art film and art publications, negotiating with rules of institutions.