Antoine d’ Agata | Magnum Photos France. 2002.
“Exoticism accounts for a violence that bodies contaminated by spectacular death undergo and generate. An image speaks when words fail, allowing one to blend into the belly of the wo
(...) rld. An offering to reality which imposes the world as the only valid field of experimentation, which must be traversed and invented, and which must be enjoyed and destroyed. A tiny secret escapes the immanence of communication … seeing the unseen, a deviance leading to a climax that is both the premise and condition of more painful interactions with the world. Inability to think, to flee. The game thwarts understanding, with no other end than the willingness to destroy a lazy certainty, to softly mold the mind and to recall to disorder the atrophied gaze.”
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