Antoine d'Agata - Position(s) - 2012

A journal written in the third person that traces “the inexorable course of the void toward the void” of Antoine d’Agata’s artistic work. A literary and photographic experiment where writing, sometimes descriptive, sometimes poetic, interweaves with the image in a continuous narrative. A form of resistance by the photographer who, through intimate engagement with his material, a total superposition of art and life, moves toward his disappearance and the erasure of the subject in the neutral of the image.

Antoine d’Agata was born on November 19, 1961, in Marseille. From the age of 17, he interrupted his studies to live in the night world. 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 where he studied with Nan Goldin and Larry Clark. In 1993, he settled in France, worked as a mason, and interrupted his photographic practice until 1997. In 1998 his first book, Mala Noche, appeared. The following year, he joined the Vu gallery barely created by Christian Caujolle. In 2001, he received the Niépce Prize. In September 2003, the Paris exhibition 1001 Nights was inaugurated, 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 of four hours, White Noise, which gathers the voices of 24 women. Antoine d’Agata notably won the Prix du livre photographique des Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles in 2013 for the work Anticorps, published the same year during an important exhibition at Le Bal, in Paris. Antoine d’Agata’s work can be read as an exploration of contemporary violence in 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 produced by marginalized social groups through poverty (survival through crime, narcotic addiction, sexual excess).

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