Erieta Attali (*1966, Tel Aviv) has spent two decades exploring the relationship between architecture and landscape at the edge of the world. Attali's photography questions how extreme conditions and demanding terrain push man to reorient and focus through architectural responses. Her relentless and very physical expedition saw her cross four continents, working on isolated and remote terrain from Iceland to the Indian Ocean.
In Periphery | Archaeology of Light, Attali refers to the essence of ancient Greek cartography in which the edges of the maps represent the outer limits of the known world. Attali's poetic and metaphorical photographs, in which architecture is represented as a natural element, inseparable from its context, present visual maps of temporal and spatial transformations at the forefront of human existence.
The photographic journey is accompanied by textual contributions from different fields: archaeology, architecture and art history, speaking of the idea of a geographical periphery.
Her latest book will be to be discovered and consulted at Paris Photo this year!
Erieta Attali (United States) is in residence at the Cité internationale des arts through the programme of the Académie d'Architecture de Paris.