On a deserted, moonlit Greek island where hundreds have decamped from all over the world to eat, drink and be merry - in the kind of nighttime gathering its sacred soil has not seen in nearly 2000 years - the artist Antony Gormley is feeling emotional. 'This is so special, moving and wonderful... I'm so grateful you have all come to remind us of the life that was once here,' he tells the coterie of fellow artists, gallerists, curators, archaeologists and aficionados assembled on Delos for the opening of Sight, his controversial repopulation of one of Greece's three most sacred archaeological sites with 29 of his signature 'bodyforms', five of which have been newly created for the project. Standing, lying prostrate, bent in contemplation, crouched in despair or occasionally clinging together, the figures exude a sense of life totally absent in the elaborately adorned but dead-eyed marble statues punctuating fields littered with the pillars, pediments, pilasters, low walls and building blocks. Such ruins are all that remains of an abandoned port which in its heyday traded more than 750,000 tons of merchandise - and 250,000 slaves.
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