Antoine d'Agata — Art At A Time Like This

Antoine d’Agata

In the early days of confinement in France, D'Agata traveled through Paris with a thermodynamic device to record, in his own way, the episode of the new plague transforming the capital into a theater of shadows shaving the walls. These images amalgamating in the same continuum of material and physical fevers a world that burns or cools, a hand temperature is that of the rubber of the escalator, as in other photos, the glowing windows of a supermarket in the appearance of hot plates absorb the light from the bodies which line them up in a synchronous combustion effect. The new surveillance society will be that of the thermometer and there may be, in the future, a formal ban on gorging on Doliprane in an attempt to escape social ostracism. Dystopia at 37.2 ° C in the morning as a new figure suddenly replacing the terrible Orwellian prophecy of 1984.

Didier Péron , Julien Gester - April 3, 2020
Libération