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In a long-term care facility, forty-five people are living, all suffering from severe degenerative diseases. One hundred doctors and nurses work at the facility. It has taken four years to create these portraits during which time three of the eleven voluntary residents have died : Laurent, Olivier and Julien.

 Along one thousand metres of corridors, the residents, in their electric wheelchairs come and go quietly. Each of them have a room, their cocoon, their universe, holding on to their memories and passions. Silence predominates, the movement hardly perceptible, speech is difficult, even sometimes impossible as the disease slowly evolves. The extreme dependence is omnipresent and the denouement is known.

It is a world apart, where the perception of time and space is altered: sometimes compressed, sometimes distended.
In their own care bedroom, this photographic representation is first of all the expression of one of their dream, wish, or fantasy. Once restrained, this thought occupies the whole physical space of the room; it invades it to reach a representation in which the imagination supplants the human condition.

 Christophe Hargoues 
photographs by Christophe HARGOUES

From 16/05/2017 to 13/07/2017
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