Oscurana (VOID)

WARNING: Graphic images!

Presentation by VOID:

" Oscurana presents a body of work that results from the various trips that Antoine d'Agata has made during more than thirty years in American countries: Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua, Salvador, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guatemala, Haiti, Puerto Rico, United States, Cuba, and Mexico.

Oscurana is a collaborative project developed amongst 6 publishers from different countries (see below); offering a reflection on the work the Antoine d'Agata from different countries and publishers, in a dialogue that opens new perspectives in the ways of making photobooks.

Edited from a common selection of Antoine d’Agata's images from Latin America, seven different books share the same dimensions, title and artistic statement — a text called Oscurana. The invited publishers were given the freedom to select the images, the design, the materials, printing and binding techniques.

The images are notable for their immediate, almost brutal vision of societies taken by the brutal spiral of violence. Through the degeneration and paroxysm of the flesh, the photographer tries to reveal fragments of a society that escape the usual analysis and visualization of the collective body. He exposes himself, sharpens his awareness of a world that absorbs and feeds, without any precaution or judgment.

For their own Oscurana project, VOID proposes a book to be autopsied. The reader will dig in the darkness within Antoine's oeuvre, being themselves, the legists of d'Agata's universe. An investigation from the intimacy, through the narcotic experiences until the darkness of the violence's banality in America.

The publishers: Editions FIFV (Chile), Inframundo (Mexico), KWY (Peru), Le Dernier Cri (France), Sub Editora (Argentina), and VOID (Greece). "

This photobook is sold out by the publisher. Some pages need to be cut open. Includes a tipped-in booklet.

WARNING: Graphic images!

120 pages - Softcover + booklet

VOID, 2018 (400 copies)

Format : 17.4 x 23 cm

New - Mint condition