
Anticorps
- Publisher
- LE BAL / Éditions Xavier Barral
- Year
- 2013
- Specifications
- Hardcover
19.5 x 26 cm
560 pages
French
Published for the retrospective at LE BAL, Paris
Prix du Livre d’Auteur, Rencontres d’Arles
The book of the retrospective held at LE BAL in Paris, co-published with Éditions Xavier Barral, and winner of the author's book prize at the Rencontres d'Arles. Over five hundred and sixty pages it goes through the whole career. In this autobiographical journal are many pictures from the known series on emotional drifting and on sex under the influence of drugs, in more or less illicit underground surroundings; it is a vertiginous descent into the night out of which d'Agata has built his thinking on the balance of force between two opposed worlds. His other recurring subjects are here too: derelict urban and peri-urban settings, abandoned buildings and grim streets, and series of portraits of the people living in the places he passes through.