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Psycodémie is a visual document highlighting the human vulnerability revealed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Completed in Brazil in February 2022, the 520-page book consists primarily of thermal images taken in hospital intensive care units, refugee centers, and uninhabited public spaces in France during the lockdown months of March to June 2020.

Psycodémie examines global social and political dynamics in the context of the pandemic against the incandescent backdrop of a city confined to hospitals, where nurses and patients carrying the virus perform a daily ritual of life-and-death gestures. Antoine d’Agata transforms these opaque spaces into a shadow theater. He erases the very surface of things, the skin of people and the skin of the world, to better reveal its tragic dimension.

Psycodémie questions global economic and political dynamics through a health crisis that has revealed the fragility and responsibility of all. It is in this ambivalence between solidarity and contamination, this inevitability of social and physiological death, that the photographer has attempted to grasp, developing and affirming, through photographic language, the possibility of unprecedented gestures of resistance that transfigure bodies. Thermal images freeze shapes, postures, and figures in forms imperceptible to the naked eye.

For thirty years, Antoine d'Agata has been showing the contemporary conditions of a battered humanity. He questions the limits of the photographic process, not considering society as a whole to document it, but immersing himself in the violence of the world at his own risk. His images are subjective gestures that aim to shift the boundaries of visual representation beyond the ordinary conventions of photography.

This project was supported by the MuCEM and the Jan Michalski Foundation.

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