Agathe Toman - Orange Sunset - 2/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Photographic art print on glossy paper with grain. Winter 2025.
Signature at the bottom right. The numbering at the bottom left. Signed and numbered, dated on the back. Printed in Biarritz, France. An authenticity certificate, completed and signed by the artist, will also be provided to the purchaser. The photograph is sold unframed, so it can be sent rolled.

Biography of the artist:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent ranges from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Parisian fashion school Chambre Syndicale de la Couture and several years working as a stylist in haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Based today in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an upcoming figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

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

Agathe's palette favors deep shades of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils, and intensely striking acrylics, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction. Agathe's photographs unsettled by their kaleidoscopic abstractions overwhelm us with calm sensations, reminiscent of perfect weightlessness, which was our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems rhythm the universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection entitled “You will have to learn to smile again” is released in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also 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 thickness.

Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. She focuses 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.

Agathe Toman 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 transposes it into art. Experiences she shares with great generosity.

"MY VISION:
My work explores the deep connections 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 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 spectator to introspection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I anchor this intent in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles at the touch of 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, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these hidden inner aspects.

A meticulous closeness between my hands and the pigments, the charcoal, the ballpoint pen, and the paints, through the deposition of matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. An increased 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 unforeseen. This intensely compressed, subtly stirred inexpressible that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. The emergence of a distinctly 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. These are two sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating new links between Us, within us.

The viewer, in turn, becomes a 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 oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to establish, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of one’s 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, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of that encounter.

“Psychic suffering is tied 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 because of certain thoughts, but because certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and remain thus in wandering.” René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Clinical Psychopathology, page 146.

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