Don’t miss the opportunity to visit the exhibition ‘Le Vie delle Foto‘ at our Hotel DoubleTree by Hilton Trieste: an unprecedented experience that transforms the city into a vast open-air gallery. Thanks to an interconnected exhibition like a modern network, you can explore all the locations involved on foot, experiencing the city streets and historic places as lively centers of interaction and sharing 📸.
photo credits: photographer Lorenzo Bencich
curated by Le Vie delle Foto
11–25 June 2026
Circe takes its name from the mythological figure reimagined in Madeline Miller’s novel: not the cruel sorceress of classical tradition, but a woman of profound complexity, moving through centuries of transformation — from invisibility to self-discovery, from pain to the conscious choice of her own humanity.
In the paintings of Fiorella Valeria Paolini, this metamorphosis becomes color. Her acrylic works do not illustrate mythology; they inhabit its emotional core, exploring rage as survival, healing that does not erase wounds, and the strength that emerges through vulnerability.
Circe is not a show about myth. It is a reflection on authentic transformation — the kind that does not simplify or beautify pain, but truly changes us.
Fiorella Valeria Paolini is a painter and designer based in Trieste. Her artistic research begins from emotion before technique: through acrylic painting she explores the inner experience of women — pain, healing, transformation — using a direct and deeply personal chromatic language.
Her works use the body not as anatomy, but as a space inhabited by emotions, conflicts, and rebirths. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in Trieste, Rome, Florence, and within the Dantebus artistic circuit.
With Artemide — Origine di una postura, she explored the body that occupies space without asking permission. With Circe, she continues this journey through a more complex territory: contradiction, change, and the freedom to choose who we become.
The exhibition opening will take place on 11 June at 6:30 PM at the DoubleTree by Hilton Trieste, Piazza della Repubblica 1, Trieste.
