At the invitation of the Centre Pompidou, photographer Antoine d’Agata (born in 1961 in Marseille, France) is taking over one of the Museum’s rooms as his studio for 100 days. Throughout this period, the public is invited to discover the artist’s creative process.
Antoine d’Agata’s studio is the world. The photographer leads a non-stop life, always on the move between personal projects and press commissions that take him to remote regions and conflict zones. The “Method” project proposes a radical change in his practice. Here, he experiments with a hybrid approach that he calls “work-praxis”, fuelled by an attempt at completion that is never finished, always starting again.
During this artist residency at the Museum, Antoine d’Agata will transform Room 21bis into a studio for 100 days. He gives himself the time to work on his vast photographic archives and collections of objects, books and films. In this way, he looks back at his trajectory and try to draw some kind of conclusion in the form of a monumental installation, the “Atelier-monde” [The World-Studio] and his 256 notebooks.
This space contrasts the traveller’s isolation with an encounter with the public, who can observe the artist as he finalises his work and seeks a method to organise its narrative flow. The residency is also an opportunity to exchange ideas with thirteen guest authors on d’Agata’s favourite themes – history, cruelty, fragility, absence and death.
Programme of encounters
24 October, 19h: Florence Aubenas
7 November, 5 pm: Alberto Garcia Alix
14 November, 7 pm:.Geneviève Fraisse
21 November, 7 pm. Philippe Azoury
5 December, 7 pm: Tania Bohórquez and Laurence Viallet
12 December, 7 pm: Jean-Baptiste del Amo
19 December, 7 pm: Jonathan Littell
