The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation organizes the temporary exhibition with photographs by Giorgos Tatakis, titled “Caryatis gamma. Thrace” in the Silk Museum in Soufli.
The exhibition presents thirty-three black and white photographs that depict the cultural diversity and history of Thrace and Soufli, through a contemporary and human-centered lens. For the Cultural Foundation, the Silk Museum was an ideal venue to host the exhibition, at the place where silk defined the identity of the region and provided the raw material for the impressive local costumes. The internationally acclaimed photographer, who has been involved in the visual documentation of Greek tradition for many years, "perceives" the local costumes with sensitivity and insight.
Two audiovisual productions recording his recent travels in the region enhance the exhibition, inviting the audience to a narrative journey of particular aesthetic and anthropological interest.
As Eva Nathena notes in her introduction to the exhibition: “There is no way you can look at photographs by Giorgos Tatakis without hearkening to what has been already speaking to you deep inside for years, through the Doric, the Ionian and sometimes the Corinthian order. The frame, with its content, the wherewithal and the landscape, telling you again and again, in every shot, what Greece is all about.”
The “Caryatis” series by Giorgos Tatakis, a pictorial study of local women's costumes from all over Greece, has been awarded twenty-two international photography prizes. His images have been published in media outlets such as the New York Times and National Geographic, and have been exhibited in major cultural venues, including the Benaki Museum in Athens, the Fragonard Museum in Cannes and Somerset House in London.
In the framework of the exhibition, the Cultural Foundation organizes a programme of parallel activities, offering visitors and the local community the opportunity to engage directly with elements of the material and intangible culture of Thrace.
Duration of the exhibition: 17 July-31 October 2025
Opening hours: Daily except Tuesday, 10:00-18:00 (and from 16/10, 10:00-17:00)
Closed: 15 August
See the creative team here
Silk Museum
73 Eleftheriou Venizelou Str., Soufli 684 00
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