Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2 14/15

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

Artist biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent extends from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studying at the prestigious Parisian Chambre Syndicale de la Couture fashion school and several years as a stylist with French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
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 with Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have gone to auction three times, testimony to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, including Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying her presence in many 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 acrylics with striking intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas wields a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing power of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs unsettle with their kaleidoscopic abstractions, enveloping us in calm sensations, reminiscent of a perfect weightlessness that was 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,” will be published in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is 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 imbues it with 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.

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 function 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 to the unconscious.

I ground this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles against black, or lights up on its own. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each a pure creation, freed from imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A careful closeness between my hands and the pigments, charcoal, ballpoint pen, and paints, through the deposition of 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, and infuse it with myself, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something you did not suspect. Something unexpected. This unbearably compressed yet subtly stirred indescribable quality that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. The emergence of a decisively 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. 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, forging new links between Us, within us.

The viewer then becomes 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, psychic resonances align and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to settle, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of their soul takes shape, 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 sharpen souls, and to have emotions find an echo, so that words resonate there.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the outcome of this encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked 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 Pathology of General Clinical Practice, page 146.