Antoine d’Agata @ Galerie Les filles du calvaire

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Antoine d’Agata @ Galerie Les filles du calvaire

July 23rd, 2021 by fstop

Antoine d’Agata Central de Abastos, Mexique, 2021 Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire

Antoine d’Agata : CODEX | MEXICO, 1986-2021
28 October to 4 December 2021

“1986 – 2021. The body of work presented at the gallery reflects the experiences of this prolific artist: violent and troubled. The ensemble testifies to a journey, to incessant return trips to Mexico, which have been for the artist a field of absolute experimentation, beyond limits. The photographic material that makes up this ensemble comes from experiments carried out over a period of thirty-five years. Two histories are intertwined here, that of Mexico and that of the author’s relationship with the violence of a community that he has seen disintegrate. The entry point to this violence is the drug crystal meth, which spares neither individuals nor social structures. In order to directly incorporate this history of violence, d’Agata absorbs the chemicals that are its source. The process is both brutal and extra-ordinary. Devastated reality then becomes abominable: the landscape empties, human disintegrates, the death drive reaches its peak.”

Galerie Les filles du calvaire
17 rue des Filles-du-Calvaire
75003 Paris

Location: France, Paris Type: Exhibition

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