Of the various trips he has undertaken throughout Mexico over the past thirty years, Antoine d'Agata He has extracted the chilling material with which he now constructs a tense and static diary. The desolate and empty landscape that surrounds him is a reflection of an increasingly unstable criminal society. Snapshots, cinematic narratives, and texts configure a personal diary that, through intimate, sexual, or narcotic encounters, confronts and engages with an ever more abominable reality. To portray the world of solitude and marginalization he traverses, the photographer employs a language that, as time passes, seems to degenerate and lose all trace of humanity.

The book as a whole paints a complex portrait of a period presented as a prolonged descent of Mexican society into blind savagery. Internally structured around six photographic movements referring to different moments in Mexico's contemporary history, its various chapters mark breaks in the continuity of a story that links an individual to a community that is not their own but to which they are inextricably bound, within the polymorphic tradition of photographers like Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, and Cartier-Bresson who traveled to Mexico during the 20th century.

The presenter who will talk to Antoine will be Alejandro Castellote.

The presentation of this book coincides with the exhibition Corpus, framed within the PhotoEspaña 2017 festival. Antoine d'Agata will also participate in the course Photography and transversality. Photography at its intersection with other disciplines, within the School of the Arts.