Agathe Toman - ÉTÉ #012 9/15

First digital artwork by artist Agathe Toman generated by AI. Digital drawing. Pixelated details, and the use of Ben-Day dots across the entire piece. Glossy fine-art photo paper.
Signature on the bottom right. The numbering on the bottom left. Signed and numbered, dated on the back.
Printed in France. Certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist.
Sold without frame.

Biography of the artist Agathe Toman-Côté at Sotheby’s since 2021:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent ranges from painting to poetry, including drawing and photography. Based between Hossegor and Paris, Agathe establishes herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both on the national and international stages.

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her remarkable contributions to various salons, notably at Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in numerous private collections around the world.

Agathe's palette emphasizes deep shades of black and blue, colors that are the essence of her work. Her paintings use pure pigments and acrylics of staggering intensity, while her drawings, created with a Bic ballpoint pen, captivate with their hypnotic character. Agathe's photographs, with astonishing depth, as well as her poetry kaleidoscopes, enrich her universe with an abstract language that defines her oeuvre.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply committed to the study of psychoanalysis, which she has been pursuing for three years. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate deep psychological dimensions into her art.

Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. With unwavering determination, she focuses her work on crucial themes such as mental health and the environment. These lines of inquiry are not only present in her art; they are an integral part of her artistic identity.

Their work has been recognized and celebrated in several renowned publications, including Forbes, L'Oeil, and Elle, marking their 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.

MY VISION :

My work focuses on the notion of the links between the psyche and the corporeal.
Their ways of functioning together within their environments, the connections they build, and the development of perceptible and imperceptible vibrations 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 an introspective reflection.

I inscribe this will into the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles upon contact with black, or illuminates alone. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, my drawings, and my photographs are each an absolute creation, free from all imitation.

A meticulous connection exists between my hands and the pigments, charcoals, ballpoint pen, and paints applied to paper or canvas. My techniques of execution never repeat themselves, and the result is always foreign. I thus work to capture the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse it with myself, for the creation of your memory.
There is always something we did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable.
The emergence of a decidedly unique imprint, 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 those of others to merge into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations that my works create in the viewer. These are two sensitivities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. I consider them as active beings, creating unprecedented connections between us. The viewer also becomes a creator of the work; it finally comes to life.
I commit to a journey towards a new vision of His Being, the world, oneself, and others.

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, it is psychic resonances that align and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to establish itself. A morphing of the soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to refine human minds, sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo within them, for words to resonate there.
What is important is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of this encounter.


Psychic suffering is linked to all that escapes the process of symbolizing subjectivity. 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, an listening, a receptacle and thus remain in wandering.