On sea grega

"Sua mare grega" is the nickname that James Joyce used jokingly to talk about Ulysses with his friends from Trieste, in particular with Italo Svevo.

The following images were exhibited in Dublin, from 10 to 16 July 2016 at the Icon Factory, during the TriesteDublin - DublinTrieste exhibition, organized by Fulvio Rogantin.
The photos constitute a very personal approach to "profesor Zois", as the people of Trieste called him, through some places of the great Irish author's trip to Trieste. To create the work I started from the classic Joycean itinerary, but I immediately distanced myself from it due to the excessively marked transformation that some places have undergone over time and which do not allow us to fully "feel" the character. I therefore preferred to concentrate on some fragments of the artist's life and look for them around the city, without neglecting the places where his presence was effective (Cavana, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Lanterna bathhouse, known as "Pedocin" - once Fontana, the Campo Marzio station, etc.).
A brilliant character, Joyce, but equally complex. A lover of wine, brothels, and the Greek Orthodox cult at the same time, perpetually indebted to this or that, he stayed in Trieste from 1905 to 1914, teaching English at the Berlitz school. During this stay he finished "Dublin People" and began Ulysses, or "Sua mare grega", a Triestine phrase meaning...son of a good woman.