From Wednesday, June 25 until September 21, 2025 at the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture, the internationally acclaimed photographer Erieta Attali, presents the exhibition ‘Delos|Land adrift’. The exhibition invites viewers to encounter Delos not only as a destination but as a passage: an island adrift between light and shadow, earth and sky, the ancient and the eternal. Through her lens, Attali revives the island’s sacred aura, offering a visual narrative that is at once archaeological, lyrical, and profoundly timeless.
Curated by Erieta Attali and Lambros Papanikolatos, the exhibition features 25 large scale prints by Erieta Attali, a 7-minute film by Elizabeth Tsouctidi, and a cartographic mapping designed by architect Aris Kafantaris. Also, it is accompanied by texts by Barry Bergdoll, Georges-Stylianos Prevelakis and Dimitris Philippidis. The exhibition’s architectural design was created by Tasos Roidis.
To honor Apollo, the god of the sun, and for Artemis, his twin sister, goddess of moonlight, the temple site was to connect earth and cosmos, the temporal to the eternal. Both daylight and moonlight are recorded in Erieta Attali’s images. But those very different luminosities are equally the very means of the images’ creation: “photography”; a practice and a word invented in the 19th century from Greek roots: to draw with light.
From September 2022 to May 2025 Erieta Attali created images that capture the interaction of both sun and moonlight on the Cycladic islands. It is there that temples address not only the land on which archaeologists dig but the sweep of the horizon and the glistening of the sea.
Special Tours
Special guided tours will take place in the following days:
Thursday, 03/07/2025 at 19:30. The tour will be conducted by the photographer herself.
Thursday, 10/07/2025 at 19:30. The tour will be conducted by the photographer herself.
Thursday, 24/07/2025 at 19:30. The tour will be conducted by the co-curator Lambros Papanikolatos.
Thursday, 18/09/2025 at 19:30. The tour will be conducted by the photographer herself.
Limited number of participants.
Plus €2 to the admission cost of the exhibition.
Tickets may be bought in advance at tickets.benaki.org or by attending the Museum on the day of the visit.