ANTOINE D'AGATA 1961- - ANTOINE D'AGATA 1961-
"NOIA", Super Labo, 2014, 36p.
Book. Signed edition limited to 500 copies.
In-folio (39.6 x 29.7 cm)
An endless accumulation of empty stares perpetuates the dazed destitution of men defeated by History. Everything is done to eradicate any trace of desire, rage, violence, pain, fear or animal pleasure. Fragile shadows free themselves from social control by regaining control of their bodies. Through the degeneration of bodies and the paroxysm of emotions, the images reveal fragments of society that escape the usual analysis and visualization of the social body, but are nonetheless its primary elements. Confronting the contradictions inherent in the use of documentary photography, structuring a physical and psychic journey overshadowed by dependence, pain, risk, randomness and unconsciousness. Poverty is contrary to order. Bestiality is the ultimate bulwark against the anaesthesia of the senses and the mentality of a society that defines objects and people as commodities. Those who emancipate themselves from physical deprivation and escape the moral order gain access to the last magical rites of instinct, as the intimate territory of social resistance, the antidote to the commercial dream, the alternative to the violence of social stability. The production of pornographic images may paradoxically be the only truly committed position, an alternative to the violence of a social stability founded on the frustration of unfulfilled lust. Only the mixing of bodies escapes history, in a slow agony, under the seal of consciousness and irony, conjuring death and responding to a loving vision of the world.
Estim. 100 - 200 EUR
