Antoine d’Agata • France

The project ‘True or False? presents the lesser known pictures of Antoine d’Agata, entitled 'Psychogéographie', a term borrowed from Guy Debord to qualify ‘the effects of a place on one’s affective behaviour, his or her wanderings in a town following its tides, points of interest, parts to avoid…’ Large colour photomontages on Marseille and Cherbourg, where people appear facing or with their back to the camera are digitally incrusted into deserted urban spaces or ports. This series of pictures by Antoine d’Agata makes the inhabitants of these towns face their nightmares and shows them what they don’t want to see. In succeeding an impossible integration with these montages, he creates a feeling of discomfort, works on the wrong image we have, whether it be the Kurds or the people living in the northern part of Marseille, even when we look at them empathetically