Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2 13/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION." Fine art glossy paper with a grain was used for the photograph. Taken 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. Editioned work, hand-signed, front and back. High-quality pigment-based fine art digigraph 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, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years working as a stylist for French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Today based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe is establishing 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, evidence of her rapid rise and acceptance within prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, including Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying her presence in private collections around the world.

Her palette favors deep black and blue tones, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils, and intensely powerful acrylics, 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, enveloping us in calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that existed at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection titled “You will have to learn to smile again” is due in winter 2024.

Beyond her practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis in transactional analysis, which she has been pursuing 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 lines of inquiry 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 links between psyche and body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I examine how they operate in 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 carry emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection, opening a passage 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 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, eliciting pure emotion, triggering the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner, unrevealed aspects.

A meticulous closeness between my hands and the pigments,Conte crayon, the ballpoint pen, and the paints, through the deposition of matter on paper or on 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 intensely compressed, subtly stirred inexpressible that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, a lyrical abstraction; my works are self-portraits, portraits of parts of me.
I state 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 sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediacy. I regard them as active beings, creating new links between Us, in 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 allows themselves to be invited, these are psychic resonances that align and harmonize into a single symphony; a dialogue begins to take shape, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of their soul takes form, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience. An intense and powerful presence. An exacting experience.

I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo there, 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 escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked or awaiting psychical 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 Pathology of General Clinical, page 146.