"It's a character. An individual, male, who walks, moves, stops, makes love, drinks, takes drugs, continues to advance. That night a character who eventually approach the definition of the Stendhal novel, by dint of walking on a road and to serve as a mirror. Perhaps, indeed, this character is he alone a novel. is a character that is organized in time in a timeline and locations that we pretend to be a spacetime, that is, if one is a little bit careful, that new fiction, traces the character, even well organized, amazingly wise compared to the actions of the individual, do not tell us, in fact, no credible or certain. But it is true that the only traces of these movements is photography. To be considered, So, with the greatest caution. To put both in doubt and concerned. "
Christian Caujolle, preface Vortex , Seoul, May 2003.
Antoine d'Agata wandering for years around the world, having abandoned any geographical point of attachment and is limited to that which is psychologically the night, drugs, sex. A certain tendency that photograph with greed. In fact, the look dared by the artist on his world Foxtail is always free trial or opinion. To think that for him, he is still only store the maximum moment experienced the maximum excess. His eye particular, probably it is part of Nan Goldin and Larry Clark, with whom he learned photography. For the rest, is his life each night that creates the work. A time chasing each other, with the photographer captures everything it can: Leica, Polaroid, disposable camera.
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