[Summer 2025]

Methode
by Jessica Ragazzini

[EXCERPT]

During his residency-exhibition Méthode, Antoine d’Agata invited visitors to the Centre Pompidou to enter the complex, raw world of his photographic practice. For a hundred days, he transformed one of the museum’s galleries into an open studio in which he had amassed three decades of archives, visual narratives, and personal objects in an arrangement reflecting what he calls his “nomadic” career. Méthode stood out from his previous exhibitions for its approach: unadorned, ordered, and multidisciplinary, including photographs, videos, installations, and digital mapping. This hybrid project – a “praxis-work,” to use his term – represented a synthesis within which he challenged the limits and transformations of his art career and personal life, the two being inseparable.

[…]

[ Complete issue, in print and digital version, available here: Ciel variable 129 – FROM CONTINENT TO CONTINENT ]
[ Complete article in digital version available here: Antoine d’Agata, Methode]

Jessica Ragazzini is a lecturer at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, a researcher and independent curator specializing in body representation and photography. The author of numerous articles and talks, she has co-edited sections on representations of changing bodies for Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, Écrans, Ex_situ, and Images Re-vues.