Text in French and in English
Two picture booklets of 40 pages each + 1 booklet with text
16 x 23 cm
1st edition (2020)
“This would result in a free zone for which the body would be a range of intensity, action and tension. The photographer and artist chose the darkness of enclosed chambers as a way of accessing this both creative and destructive energy matrix.”
Léa Bismuth
Antoine d’Agata is a photographer who lives on the edge. He immerses himself in his personal universes, until he exhausts them. He transforms reality with the help of time, and shows us facts, events, mixed textures or diffuse colors that shape human forms that get lost. In some of Francis Bacon’s works, we can see these photographs of d’Agata, the same worlds full of chiaroscuro, continuous ups and downs towards hell, and this attempt to lengthen the moment of joy or solitude.
“The first painter’s exhibition I visited was a retrospective of Bacon at MoMA in 1989. It was a shock from which I still haven’t recovered.”
Antoine d’Agata