Antoine d'Agata - Position(s) - 2012

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

Antoine d’Agata was born on November 19, 1961, in Marseille. From the age of 17, he interrupts his studies to live in the world of the night. For twelve years, he lives and travels through about twenty countries. While staying in New York in 1991, and with no photographic experience, he enrolls at the International Center of Photography where he studies with Nan Goldin and Larry Clark. In 1993, he settles in France, works as a mason and interrupts his photographic practice until 1997. In 1998 his first book, Mala Noche, appears. The following year, he joins the Vu gallery barely created by Christian Caujolle. In 2001, he receives the Niépce Prize. In September 2003, the Paris exhibition 1001 Nights is inaugurated, accompanied by the release of two works, Vortex and Insomnia. In 2004, he joins Magnum, publishes his fifth book, Stigma, and shoots his first short film, El Cielo del muerto. In 2006, the photographer shoots his second film, Aka Ana, in Tokyo; his last feature-length film of four hours, White Noise, brings together the voices of 24 women. Antoine d’Agata notably won the Book Prize of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles in 2013 for the work Anticorps, published that 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 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 generated by marginalized social groups through poverty (survival by crime, narcotic addiction, sexual excess).

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