Agathe Toman - CLOUD #6 1/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art glossy paper print with a grain. Photographed in Seignosse, Étang Blanc, France. Spring 2026
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, it is not framed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be attached. Edition numbered, hand-signed, with front and back. High-quality pigment-based digigraphic print.
Agathe Toman is listed at Sotheby’s since 2021.

Biography of the artist:
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 spent as a stylist with French 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 asserts herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have gone to auction three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying her presence in 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, oils, and high-intensity acrylics that tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, echoing her own experiences.
Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs unsettle with kaleidoscopic abstractions, flooding us with calm sensations, reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness, which was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems rhythm the universe with a lyricism that characterizes 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 thicknesses.

Agathe does not separate her art from her social commitments. She concentrates her work on crucial themes such as mental health, the environment, and education. These lines of thought 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 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 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 indescribable, 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 doorway to the unconscious.

I frame 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, free from imitation, evoking pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner, unrevealed aspects.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and pigments, charcoal, the ballpoint pen, and paints, through the deposition of matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, an uncontrolled result. An increased singularity.
I thus work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, and to pour myself into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This ineffable intensely compressed, subtly teased, that overwhelms us and submerges 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 me.
I say that my creations are "materializations of psychic states", human landscapes, threads of my soul, inviting others to merge into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. Two sensibilities meet, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I regard 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 embark on a path toward a new vision of Being, of oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited now, these are psychic resonances that align and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to settle, a rhythm becomes perceptible. An anamorphosis of their 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 human minds, to sharpen souls and for emotions to find an echo, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes within us, and the result of this encounter.

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