Agathe Toman - CLOUD #8 2/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art photographic print on glossy paper with a grain. Photographed in Seignosse - Étang Blanc, France. Spring 2026
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, unframed, and a certificate of authenticity will accompany it, completed and signed by the artist. Editioned work, hand-signed, front and back. High-quality pigment-based fine art digigraphic print.
Agathe Toman is represented by Sotheby’s since 2021.

Artist's Biography:
Born in 1989, of French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a French multidisciplinary artist whose talent spans painting, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years working as a stylist for French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Based today in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe has established herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Represented by Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testimony to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in many 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 incredibly intense acrylics, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a pull, echoing her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe's photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions; they overwhelm us with calm sensations, reminiscent of perfect weightlessness, which existed at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism characteristic of her work. A first collection titled "You will have to learn to smile again" is released 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 is imbued with new depths.

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'Oeil, 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 human experience, as she perceives it and transforms it into art. Experiences she shares with great generosity.

"MY VISION:
My work explores the deep connections between psyche and body, weaving dialogues between mind and matter. I question how they function 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 in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles at the touch of 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, liberated 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 pigments, charcoal, ballpoint pen, and paints, by depositing matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. A heightened singularity.
I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, to infuse them with myself, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable intensely compressed, subtly stoked, which subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their strength. The emergence of a decisively 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 merge with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it resides in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. These are two sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate identities. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I consider them as active beings, creating new links between Us, within us.

The viewer becomes, in turn, 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 now allows themselves to be invited, these are psychic resonances that align and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to take hold, a rhythm begins to be felt. An anamorphosis of one's soul takes shape, an elusive reflection. It is a poetic experience.
An intense and powerful presence. A demanding experience.

I want my works to sharpen the human minds, to sharpen the souls and for emotions to find an echo, for words to resonate there.
What matters is what the artwork mobilizes in us, and the outcome of this encounter.

"Mental suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of symbolizing subjectivation. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or waiting for psychic inscription. Human beings suffer 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 remain thus adrift." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical, page 146.