Agathe Toman - CLOUD #8 1/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Photograph printed on fine art glossy paper with grain. Taken in Seignosse - Étang Blanc, France. Spring 2026
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, unframed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be included. A numbered work, hand-signed, with front and back. High-quality pigment-based digigraphie print.
Agathe Toman is listed on Sotheby’s since 2021.

Artist's biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a multidisciplinary French artist whose talent ranges from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years spent as a stylist for French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago, Agathe felt the need to devote herself exclusively to her artistic creation.
Now based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe is establishing herself as a rising figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

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

Agathe's palette favors deep shades of black and blue, a discreet chromatic movement. Her paintings utilize pure pigments, inks, oil paints, and acrylics with stunning intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, done with a Bic pen, are imbued with a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs disturb with their kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that was our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection entitled "You will have to learn to smile again" is due for winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in the study of psychoanalysis in transactional analysis, which she has been pursuing for four years in Paris. This exploration enriches her conceptual process, allowing her to integrate very deep psychological dimensions into her art, which is imbued with new textures.

Agathe does not dissociate 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'Œil, 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 links 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 introspection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I place this intent in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with light, where blue crackles in contact with black, or lights up 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, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and the pigments, charcoal, the ballpoint pen and paints, through depositing material on paper or on canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, a result that is uncontrolled. An increased singularity.
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 ineffable intensely compressed, subtly stirred, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. The emergence of a decidedly 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 melt into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. These are two sensitivities meeting, not two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard them as active beings, creating new connections 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 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 now, these psychic resonances converge and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to establish, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of one’s soul takes shape, 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 echoes, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of that encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or waiting for psychic inscription. The human being suffers not only because of events, or because of certain thoughts, but because certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, listening, a receptacle and remain in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Psychopathology of General Clinical, page 146.