This ensemble is the achievement of a collaboration with the Museum that has been supporting Antoine D’Agata’s production for the past 4 years. “Never before has a photographer had such a space, so many linear meters to place their artistic narrative”, states François Cheval, Curator of the Museum Nicéphore Niépce. The exhibition has been conceived to resemble a sequence of photographs, contact sheets, videos, letters…

It may evolve during the exhibition period, the author might add new photographs or new documents. “It’s an experimental photo installation, expanded in space and time”. In the presentation of this hanging, François Cheval qualifies the research or better yet the researches made by the photographer of the “hunt”. “It is a hunt, or simply compassion, as the photographer makes his way though the places of his early years, showing intense love for the outcast. He is one of them… We, as the forbidden and fearful audience, are confronted with our own demons, our own conforms. Those who take the work as it is, only as a pornographic and fatal relationship, will never understand this photographer’s vision. Nocturnal, this is how we can name these images with no limits, images that only know the blurred. All around this photographer and his feminine double, reality evaporates. There’s no setting. It’s dark inside these closed doors. Antoine d’Agata struggles blindly to reach into this world that, as a fatal oracle, could pronounce the last truth of this theater of cruelty. If ever he finds it, the story could find its ending.”

At the same time, during these dates, the Musée Niépce will pay tribute to the fiendish critic Bernard Lamarche-Vadel. In commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of his passing, they revisit his work by giving the exhibition a new dimension from what had already been displayed in L’Imagerie de Lannion.

The Museum also presents a show under the name “New frontiers, the landscape in contemporary photography”, a new way of looking at landscapes. No longer under the name of “Beauty” or “Romanticism”, but in taking into account the impact of humanity and industrialization.

Bernard Perrine

“ICE”, une exposition de photographies et documents d’Antoine D’Agata.
Until May 15th
Musée Nicéphore Niépce
28, quai des Messageries
71 100 Chalon-sur Saône