With VIRUS, French photographer Antoine d’Agata presents a haunting visual diary of the COVID-19 pandemic, shot in the streets, hospitals, and confinement zones of Paris during the 2020 lockdown. The exhibition, hosted by Fondation Brownstone, unveils a series of raw, infrared images that plunge viewers into the emotional and existential depths of a world brought to a standstill.

Working with a thermal camera, d’Agata captured anonymous bodies—sleeping, isolated, resisting—reduced to ghostly heat signatures. These blurred, spectral forms serve as both scientific data and human traces, questioning how we document suffering, intimacy, and survival. The result is a deeply unsettling archive of an invisible threat, where the virus becomes both subject and metaphor.