I made a mistake, I didn’t explain this work of art. It’s important!

TE VARUA TEA RERE I TE MOANA HIVA

The white spirit transcending the ocean

After one year of collecting the garbage every on the beaches of Tahiti the tour operator Nani travels wanted to alert the Polynesian population of its impact on the environment. This is how this whale came into being, created with our garbage, a cry of hope for a more responsible future.

Beach:

+ 622,5 kg of waste collected

+ 100 travellers volunteering

+ 15 garbage collections

from January to April 2019

Artistic work:

+ 5000 bottles

+ 4 months of work in the workshop

+ 10 volunteers helping the artist

from February to May 2019

“The giant sculpture of the humpback whale, signed by Tuatahi Bernière, was created in 2019 on the occasion of the artistic and environmental festival “Mer Effect”. This work is according to the artist: “a witness to a change in attitude, and the spokesperson for a generation that is motivated and determined to act responsibly in order to protect its history, its heritage, its territory.”

It came out as one of the winners of the competition: « Plus grand musée de France »

I don’t want to ruin the following text with a clumsy, unpoetic translation, I just copy it.

Louis Antoine de Bougainville

And I start thinking of my beautiful Bougainvillea flowers in my garden that never get as much rain as the plants in this place (it’s raining a lot here)

Pouvana’a a Oopa Tetuaapua,

born May 10, 1895 in Huahine, Leeward Islands, died January 10, 1977 in Papeete, is a politician from French Polynesia, leader of the RDPT and emblematic figure of the anti-colonialist movement.

During his lifetime, he was nicknamed “te Metua”, the Father (of the Nation). Shortly after his death, Oscar Temaru created the Polynesian Liberation Front, which became Tavini Huiraatira, which considered Pouvanaa Oopa as the “father of the Tahitian nation”.

Cheers