Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2 11/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Photograph printed on fine art glossy photographic paper 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. Numbered work, hand-signed on the front and back. High-quality pigment-based fine art giclée print.
Agathe Toman is listed with Sotheby’s since 2021.

Biography of the artist:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a multidisciplinary French 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 years working as a stylist in French 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 has established herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed with Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, marking her rapid ascent and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in numerous private collections worldwide.

Agathe’s palette favors deep blacks and blues, a discreet chromaticism in motion. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils and acrylics of striking intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, offering echoes of her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions, flooding us with calm sensations, reminiscences of a perfect weightlessness, which was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems pace her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first poetry collection entitled "You will have to learn to smile again" is released in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply involved 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 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 transforms 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 how they operate within their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and indescribable, 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 path to the unconscious.

I place this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles in contact with black, or shines 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 inner, unrevealed aspects.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoal, ballpoint pen and paints, by depositing matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, an uncontrolled result. A heightened singularity.
I 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 intensely compressed, subtly stirred inexpressible, which subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent things 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 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 resides in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. These are two sensitivities meeting rather than two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends immediacy. I regard them as active beings, forging new links between Us, within us.

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

I invite a journey 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 psychic resonances harmonize and align in a single symphony; a dialogue begins, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of one’s soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It’s a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and let emotions find an echo, so that words may resonate within them.
What matters is what the artwork mobilizes in us, and the outcome of this encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjective 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 some processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and thus remain adrift." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.