Antoine d'Agata - Position(s) - 2012

A journal written in the third person that traces 'the inexorable course from emptiness to emptiness' of Antoine d’Agata's artistic work. A literary and photographic experience where writing, sometimes descriptive, sometimes poetic, intertwines with the image in a continuous narrative. A form of resistance by the photographer who, through an intimate participation with his material, a total superimposition of art and life, moves towards his disappearance and the nullification of the subject within the neutrality of the image.

Antoine d’Agata was born on November 19, 1961, in Marseille. At the age of 17, he interrupted his studies to immerse himself in the nightlife. For twelve years, he lived and traveled across about twenty countries. While staying in New York in 1991, and with no photographic experience, he enrolled at the International Center of Photography, studying with Nan Goldin and Larry Clark. In 1993, he settled in France, worked as a mason, and paused his photographic practice until 1997. His first book, Mala Noche, was published in 1998. The following year, he joined the newly established gallery Vu, founded by Christian Caujolle. In 2001, he received the Niépce Prize. In September 2003, the exhibition 1001 Nuits was inaugurated in Paris, accompanied by the release of two books, Vortex and Insomnia. In 2004, he joined Magnum, published his fifth book, Stigma, and directed his first short film, El Cielo del muerto. In 2006, the photographer directed his second film, Aka Ana, in Tokyo; his last feature-length film, White Noise, lasting four hours, features the voices of 24 women. Antoine d’Agata notably won the Prix du livre photographique at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles in 2013 for his work Anticorps, published the same year during a major exhibition at Le Bal in Paris. Antoine d’Agata’s work can be read as an exploration of contemporary violence from two distinct perspectives: the violence of the day, or economic and political violence (migration, refugees, poverty, and war), and the violence of the night, or violence generated by marginalized social groups through poverty (survival through crime, drug addiction, sexual excess).

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