All images and copyright belong to Antoine D’Agata. https://artatatimelikethis.com/antoine-dagata D. is one of my best friends. A theoretical physicist that is also an anthropologist. Equidistant from atoms and from the stars, D. has a great generosity to understand the human soul. A few weeks ago we were talking about life, love, desire when I quoted Antoine D'Agata, a photographer which the work I adore.

 I was talking about the way D’Agata can relate love and sex to drug addiction. The way sex and love can be a stimullus that triggers our brain in a very low and basic levels and structures (mesolimbic system) and right away bring us  a painful cold turkey when the stimulus ceases. I talked about how incomplete we feel and how I could perceive this on Antoine’s aesthetics. The fuzzy images, strong colors… It could also be connected to what the biology philosopher Hans Jonas said:“ being an organic being, being a living being is being precarious”, the reason life has the property of being metabolical, ie., have this movement of requiring from outside to inside.  I also discussed about how Antoine D'Agata reminds me about our insufficiency so well represented in his images: the longing to tear the other’s skin and go and live under it, the anguish that sets us in motion in a search for fusion with the other, with the other’s body, with the other’s flesh. The impossible union of sex that presents itself as a promise and never fulfills its purpose and the painful realization of our ontological discontinuity.