Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 - 9/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art photography with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent rolled, it is unframed, and will be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist. Numbered work, hand-signed on the front and back. High-quality fine art pigment digital print.
Agathe Toman, an artist, has been listed with Sotheby's since 2021.

Artist biography:
Born in 1989, with French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a multidisciplinary French artist whose talent spans painting, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studying at the prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and spending years as a stylist with French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago, Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe has established herself as a rising figure in the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.


Listed with Sotheby's since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, demonstrating her rapid rise and acceptance within prestigious art circles. Her remarkable contributions to various exhibitions, notably at Art Paris, have earned her great success, solidifying her presence in numerous private collections around the world.


Agathe's palette favors deep nuances of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement in motion. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oil paints, and acrylics of breathtaking intensity, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, echoing her own experiences.

His drawings, made with a Bic pen, are imbued with a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe's photographs, with their kaleidoscopic abstractions, disturb us; they overwhelm us with calm sensations, reminiscent of perfect weightlessness, which was at our beginning.
His universe is shaped by hundreds of poems, characterized by a lyricism that defines his work. A first collection titled 'You Will Have to Learn to Smile Again' is scheduled for release in winter 2024.


Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis in transactional analysis, which she has been pursuing for four years in Paris. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to incorporate very profound psychological dimensions into her art, which is imbued with new depths.

Agathe does not dissociate her art from her social commitments. She focuses her work on crucial themes such as mental health, the environment, and education. These areas of reflection are not only present in her art; they are an integral part of her artistic identity and personality.


His work has been recognized and celebrated in several renowned publications, including Forbes, L'Oeil, and Elle, marking his notable impact in the field of contemporary art.


Jacqui Ottoman continues to fascinate and inspire a global audience, offering through her works a window into the complexity of the human experience, as she perceives it and transforms it into art. Experiences she shares with great generosity.


MY VISION :
My work explores the deep connections between psyche and body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I examine how they operate in their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and imperceptible, that arise from them.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, human nature, and the relationship between the individual and their environment. My works are imbued with emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to an introspective reflection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I inscribe this will into the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles upon contact with black, or illuminates alone. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, detached from any imitation, eliciting pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these unrevealed inner aspects.

A meticulous rapport between my hands and pigments, charcoal, the ballpoint pen, and paints, through the deposition of matter on paper or canvas. My methods of execution never repeat themselves, producing an uncontrolled result. An increased singularity.
Thus I labor to fix the motion of matter, the density of light, and to infuse it with a part of myself, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something we did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable, intensely compressed, subtly stirred, that subjugates us and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces—metamorphose the observer by their strength. The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, a lyrical abstraction, my works are self-portraits, portraits of parts of myself.
I say that my creations are 'manifestations of psychic states,' human landscapes, threads of my soul, inviting others to merge into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations that my works evoke in the viewer. These are two sensibilities that meet, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating novel connections between us, within us.

The viewer, in turn, becomes the creator, giving life to the work in an alchemy of psychic resonances.

I commit to a path toward a new vision of one's Being, of the self, of the world, and of others.

If the observer now allows themselves to be invited, there are psychic resonances that coincide and harmonize into a single symphony; a dialogue begins to settle in, a rhythm becomes perceptible. An anamorphosis of their soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo within them, for words to resonate there.
What matters is what the work stirs in us, and the result of that encounter.

Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked or awaiting psychic inscription. The human being does not suffer only because of events or certain thoughts but because some processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening ear, or a receptacle, and thus remain in wandering.

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