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 to you rolled up, it is not framed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be included. A numbered work, personally signed on the front and back. High-quality pigment-based digigraphic print.
Agathe Toman is represented by Sotheby’s since 2021.

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

Represented by Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testifying to her rapid ascent and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in many private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors deep shades of black and blue, a discreet chromaticism in motion. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils, and acrylics with stunning intensity, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas wields a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, done with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs disturb with their kaleidoscopic abstractions; they overwhelm us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning.
Hundreds of her poems cadence her universe with a lyricism characteristic of her work. A first collection entitled “You will have to learn to smile again” is set to be published in winter 2024.

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

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

Her work has been recognized and celebrated in several renowned publications, including Forbes, L’Oeil, and Elle, marking her 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 human experience as she perceives it and transforms it into art. Experiences that she shares with great generosity.

"MY VISION:
My work explores the deep links between the psyche and the body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I question their modes of operation in their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and imperceptible, that arise.
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 introspective reflection, opening a path to the unconscious.

I embed this will in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness cohabits with light, where blue crackles in contact with black, or lights up on its own. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, free from imitation, eliciting pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these unshown inner aspects.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoal, the ballpoint pen, and paints, by depositing matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. A heightened singularity.
I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse myself into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable intensely compressed, subtly stirred, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent elements transform the observer by their force. The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, a lyrical abstraction; my works are self-portraits, portraits of parts of me.
I say that my creations are “materializations of psychic states,” human landscapes, threads of my soul, inviting others to merge with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. They are two sensitivities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating unprecedented bonds between Us, within us.

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

I invite a path toward a new vision of the Self, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances align in a single harmony, a dialogue begins to take hold, a rhythm is felt. 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 allow emotions to find an echo, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the outcome of that encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjective symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or waiting for psychoexistential inscription. The human being does not suffer only because of events, or because of certain thoughts, but because certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, an ear, a receptacle and remain thus in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Psychopathology of General Clinical Practice, page 146.

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