‘TREASURE HOTEL”

A PHOTOBOOK BY HALFTONE’S MEMBER, FRANCISCO RICARTE

Photobook launch to be held on 18th March 2023 @5.00PM, at Creative Macau, with a presentation by João Miguel Barros and the author.

(Artist statement)

He woke up that night without realizing where he was

(21 days of another reality)

It seemed a strange place, as much as he was feeling “out of himself”. Outside, dark night, spot light strobes were visible and the movements seemed mechanic and indistiguishable. Where was he? What kind of place was that? How many further nights would be necessary for him to understand the place and realizing his mood? For how long would he keep feeling this mood”?

Night - day - night - day - night - day - night - night - night...

Diverse and undistinguishable feeling moods were flowing within his mind, making him balance between acute perception and half-consciousness. Did they make any kind of sense?... What was he feeling? Would it be anxiety, hope, desire, anger, ununderstanding, unbalance, or something else? Would it just be the desire for freedom? He was not sure...

Days were followed by nights, and both seemed to be hopeless and with no ending... Did those days and those nights make any sense?...

Treasure Hotel (designated mandatory quarantine hotel to enter in Macau), 5th - 25th January 2022.