Lorenzo Castore, Glitter Blues, 2021

Discover the world of Franchina, Cioccolatina, Lulù, Ramona, Brigida, Ornella, Monica the

Viking, Fiorella, Rosa, Ambra and Graziella – Sicilian trans people and transvestites living/working in Catania’s neighbourhood San Berillo, that has always been the red-light district.

What started by accident in 2004, has become a long-term relation between Lorenzo

Castore and “the girls”. Each time he was in Catania, he visited them in their neighbourhood

and chatted with them between the clients.

“The girls’ neighbourhood was set in the city in such a way that it seemed like a separate

territory, like an island without the sea around it or a castle without fortifications. After entering one of the alleyways of entry around the perimeter it feels like you are closed in, watched over and shielded. It’s like entering a private village that almost resembles an open-air home. In those four streets intimacy lives on the thresholds of the ground-floor single-rooms that open onto the street, and the invitation to be swallowed by it all is what defines the very nature of the place.”

Lorenzo Castore