Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2 12/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art glossy paper print with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, unframed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be included. A numbered work, hand-signed on the front and back. Very high-quality pigment-based digigraphy fine art print.
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 studies at the renowned École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years spent as a stylist within 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 has established herself as a rising figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, signaling her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, including 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, with a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils, and intensely vibrant 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, convey a destabilizing force of attraction. Agathe’s photographs perturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that existed at our beginning. Hundreds of her poems pace her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection titled “You will have to learn to smile again” is 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 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 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 their modes of operation in their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and ineffable, 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 to the unconscious.

I place this intention within the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, 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, evoking pure emotion, triggering the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoals, the ballpoint pen and paints, through deposition of matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. An increased singularity.
Thus I work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse me into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable intensely compressed, subtly teased, which subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces metamorphose the observer by their power. 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 melt into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it resides in the vibrations my works create in the observer. It is two sensibilities meeting rather than two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends immediacy. I regard them as active beings, forming new connections between Us, within us.

The observer, in turn, becomes creator, giving life to the work 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 allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of one’s soul appears, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience. An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

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

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that eludes 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 because of certain thoughts, but because certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and remain adrift." René Roussillon - Handbook of Psychology and Pathopsychology of General Clinic, page 146.