Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #015 - XL - 15/15

Limited edition of 15 copies, signed and hand-numbered by the artist This work is part of the series "COLLECTION PARTAGÉE" by the artist Fine art photograph taken in Hossegor (France), in the summer of 2021, and printed on glossy Fine Art paper. The image is deliberately rendered with a very pronounced grain, giving it an almost painterly presence, akin to a painting. This grain is one of the specific signatures of Agathe Toman's photographic work: it fully contributes to her plastic writing, to its materiality and to its visual identity. The work is numbered and signed by hand, on the front as well as on the back. It is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. The photograph is carefully shipped, rolled in a protective tube suitable for artworks. Frame not provided. ### BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST Born in 1989, Agathe Toman is a French visual artist of French, Austrian and Czech origins. She develops a transdisciplinary practice that traverses 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, for nearly ten years she has developed a corpus of works now present in numerous private collections in France and internationally. Listed by Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been offered at several auctions. Her work has also been shown at Art Paris and in several publications devoted to contemporary art, among which Forbes, L’Œil and ELLE. Her artistic research centers on what, in experience, precedes understanding: perception, memory, the body, inner landscapes and the traces left by experience. Through painting, drawing or photography, Agathe Toman develops a language in which light, matter, gesture and perception become the vectors of an experience that is at once physical and psychic. Her work seeks less to represent reality than to give form to what remains difficult to see: an inner state, a sensation, a memory, a tension, an apparition. In parallel with her artistic practice, she pursued for several years training in psychoanalysis and transactional analysis in Paris. This exploration of the psyche nourishes her work and dialogues with her plastic practice. ### ARTISTIC VISION "My work explores the deep links between the psyche and the body. I question how our experiences inscribe themselves in matter, in memory and in 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 viewer 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."

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