Part of Aidan Hickey’s Ulysses series, which was exhibited in Zurich, at the UB Law, as part of the exhibit “James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Law” (April 15 to May 18, 2025).
“Assuming his eccentric sleeping position beside his wife, Bloom finally rests.
Molly has been an invisible presence in earlier episodes. Now she is centre stage and her flow of thoughts become the famous soliloquy. After 17 paintings done from a male viewpoint, it took time to switch to a female perspective.
Several sketch-pads later I discovered the work of a young English/Ukrainian painter, Flora Yukhnovich. She paints remarkable, semi-abstract works based on Tiepolo and Fragonard. In these and other Rococo paintings, I found what I needed: a scaffolding on which I could paste images from Pompeii and from other Masters of sensuality – all as a salute to Molly’s Mediterranean origins … and to her vividly erotic imagination.”
Aidan Hickey