DANIEL AGRA
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Tenacity, adaptation, perseverance and struggle to survive, a spiritual heritage that accompanies you wherever you go and defines you in preference to any other characteristic of your own.
Work based on a shoe last for the Andante Project.

Author
poetics of perception, memory, and territory

Daniel Agra approaches photography as one might work a material: he does not seek to represent water, stone, architecture, or cloud, but to touch them until they cease to be identifiable and become surface, texture, density. This tactile attentiveness is not incidental; it emerges from decades spent in the world of fashion and raw materials, long before that same sensibility migrated into the photographic gesture. His photography therefore does not document the world; it dismantles it to the point where the viewer stops asking what they are looking at and begins asking what it makes them feel. This shift—from recognition to experience—runs through projects as diverse as the Galician landscape, the sky, and the contemporary city, and it is here, in the loss of reference, that the work reaches its greatest intensity: not when technique is displayed as virtuosity, but when it disappears into the image, leaving only the sensation of st

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www.danielagra.com

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