Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #015 - XL - 10/15

This work is part of the “COLLECTION PARTAGÉE” series by the artist.

Fine Art photograph taken in Hossegor (France), in the summer of 2021, printed on glossy Fine Art paper. The image is deliberately treated with a pronounced grain, fully contributing to its plastic writing.

The work is numbered and hand-signed on the front as well as on the back. It is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. The photograph is shipped carefully rolled in a protective tube (frame not included).

Artist biography:

Born in 1989, Agathe Toman is a French visual artist of French, Austrian and Czech origins. Her work unfolds across painting, drawing, photography, poetry and sculpture.
After studies at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and several years as a stylist within haute couture houses in Paris, she chose to devote herself entirely to her artistic practice.
Based in the Landes, her work is today present in numerous private collections in France and internationally. Listed by Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been offered at several auctions and she has notably exhibited at Art Paris.
Her artistic research explores the links between memory, perception, the body and interior landscapes. Through a largely abstract practice, she develops a sensitive language where light, matter and gesture become vectors of an emotional and contemplative experience.
Whether painting, drawing or photography, Agathe Toman seeks less to represent reality than to reveal what remains invisible: psychic states, traces of memory and movements of the unconscious.
In parallel with her artistic practice, she has for several years pursued training in psychoanalysis and transactional analysis in Paris. This research deeply nourishes her work, in which plastic creation and the exploration of the psyche intertwine.
Her work has notably been presented in several publications devoted to contemporary art, among them Forbes, L’Œil and ELLE.

Artistic vision
“My work explores the deep connections between the psyche and the body. I question how our experiences inscribe themselves in matter, in memory and in the landscape.
My works are abstractions where light dialogues with darkness, where the visible reveals the invisible. They do not seek to tell a story but to provoke an inner experience.
I consider each of my creations as the materialization of a psychic state. They become spaces of projection where the observer fully participates in the work, giving it a new existence through their own sensitivity.
What interests me is not what the work represents, but what it awakens. The work comes to life in the encounter.”