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The Swiss Barbara Polla invests and pays tribute to the port city of Perama, born a hundred years ago from the exile of thousands of Greeks from Asia Minor in the 1920s
If there is a place that symbolizes the meeting between Switzerland and Asia Minor, it is Perama, a port city about twenty kilometers from Athens. And a woman, Swiss, embodies this meeting: Barbara Polla.
In 1966, at the age of 16, the young girl arrived in Greece with her parents and two brothers. Her father, a professor, took “a sabbatical year to introduce us to Greece, ancient Greek, this cradle of democracy and its museums,” she remembers. The tribe is on the road when his mother, a painter, sees the hulls of boats. “She asked that we stop there, she wanted to paint them.”