Agathe Toman - CLOUD #4 10/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION". Glossy fine art paper. Fine art photography with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, it is not framed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be attached. Work is numbered, hand-signed on the front and back.
Agathe Toman is listed at 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 from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studying at the prestigious École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and several years as a stylist for French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Now based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have gone to auction on three occasions, bearing 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 private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors deep shades of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement in motion. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils and acrylics with breathtaking intensity, tending 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 disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions; they overwhelm us with calm sensations, memories of a perfect weightlessness that marked our beginning.
Hundreds of her poems pace her universe with a lyrical quality that characterizes her work. A first collection entitled “You will have to learn to smile again” is set to be 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 takes on new thicknesses.

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.

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 question 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 introspection, opening a passage toward the unconscious.

I place this intention within the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, 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, liberated from imitation, evoking pure emotion, triggering the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these unshown inner aspects.

A meticulous closeness between my hands and pigments, charcoal, ballpoint pen and paints, by depositing matter onto 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 unexpected. This ineffable intensely compressed, subtly stoked, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer with their strength. The emergence of a distinctly unique imprint, a lyrical abstraction, my works are self-portraits, portraits of parts of myself.
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. It is 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 new links 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 one’s Being, of oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, these are psychic resonances that harmonize and align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to establish, a rhythm becomes perceptible. An anamorphosis of their soul takes shape, a elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine the human minds, sharpen the souls, and for emotions to find an echo there, so that words resonate.
What matters is what the work moves within 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 suffers not only because of events or certain thoughts but because some processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and remain thus in limbo." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical, page 146.

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