TAHITI. JE RESTE ICI.
2015
(photographic series)
TAHITI. JE RESTE ICI. was made during an artistic residency of Patrícia Almeida at the Métropole Savoie Hospital Centre in 2015, at the time the hospital Dorstter was moving to the New Hospital of Chambéry.
'A few days after my arrival for an artistic residency at Métropole Savoie Hospital Centre, I find a chair in the corner of a corridor. On the chair, a scotch tape with the words written on: TAHITI. I STAY HERE. THANK YOU. Standing in the middle of that hospital, I imagine someone who would utter a cry of liberation and would never return from the beaches and rainforest of Polynesia'