Antoine d’Agata, Position(s)

Position(s)

Antoine d’Agata

Publisher
AVARIE
Year
2012
ISBN
9782954197401
Specifications
Soft cover
13.5 x 18 cm
124 pages
25 black and white and 2 colour plates
Papers Munken Lynx and Arctic Matt
Text in English, French and Italian
With a separate folded poster, 85.4 x 64 cm, French on one side and Italian on the other
Concept and editing Giuliana Prucca
Graphic design Vito Raimondi
Shortlisted, Author Book Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles 2012

A journal written in the third person that sets out to depict a quest — the inexorable course from void to void. A literary and visual experiment in which words, sometimes descriptive, sometimes poetic, intersect with pictures in a continuous narration: an existential choice and a form of resistance leading toward the subject's disappearance and the negation of the ego within the neutral spectrum of the image, while insisting on an intimate involvement with its matter and on a perfect superposition of art and life.

The pictures have been treated and reduced to a simple contrast of black against white, following the main axis of the whole editorial project: shapelessness and the sense of fading out. This flattening to a drawing effect releases the image as a shadow, a border between a recognisable sign and a blurred, ambiguous one, so that the picture is both trace and other.

“I want that! That what? That. But what? That. To be there, to be the strongest, to be here, getting through wholly, warding off nothing, devouring all, above all eating, before going back to the absolute void.” — Antonin Artaud

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