Agathe Toman - CLOUD #6 1/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art glossy paper photograph with grain. Taken in Seignosse, Étang Blanc, France. Spring 2026
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, unframed, and a certificate of authenticity will be attached, completed and signed by the artist. The work is numbered and signed by hand, on the front and back. High-quality pigment-based fine art digigraph print.
Agathe Toman has been listed at 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 from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Parisian Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years working as a stylist for 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 in the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, evidencing her rapid rise and acceptance in the circles of prestigious art. Her notable contributions to various salons, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in numerous 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, oil paints, and acrylics with striking intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas wields 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, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism characteristic of her work. A first collection entitled "You will have to learn to smile again" is due for publication in winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also 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 imprints 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 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 on 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 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 their modes of operation 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 an introspective reflection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I place this intention within the very materiality of my works: decidedly abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles at the contact of black, or glows 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, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not yet revealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoals, ballpoint pen, and paints, through the deposition of matter onto paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. A heightened uniqueness.
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 unbearably compressed, subtly teased, indefinable intensity that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—the omnipresent elements—transform the observer by their force. The emergence of a distinctly unique imprint, a lyric 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 sensitivities 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 in turn becomes a creator, giving life to the work in an alchemy of psychic resonances.

I invite a path toward a new vision of one’s Being, of oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited now, psychic resonances align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of the soul unfolds, 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, so that words resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes within us, and the result of this encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to all that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or awaiting psychic inscription. The human being suffers not only because of events or certain thoughts, but because certain processes within them have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening, a receptacle and thus remain in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.