Agathe Toman - CLOUD #7 1/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art photography printed on glossy fine art paper with a grain. Photographed in Rome, Italy. Spring 2026
The photograph will be mailed to you rolled, unframed, and a certificate of authenticity will be attached, completed and signed by the artist. Numbered work, hand-signed, with certificate on the front and back. High-quality pigment-based digigraphie fine art 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 painting, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious school of the 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.
Now based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe has established herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, bearing witness to her rapid rise and acceptance within prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various salons, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying 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, oils, and highly intense acrylics, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts 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 their kaleidoscopic abstractions, enveloping us in calm sensations, a reminiscence of a perfect weightlessness, which was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems fill her universe with a lyricism that characterizes her work. A first collection titled "You will have to learn to smile again" releases 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 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 focus areas 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 how they operate 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 carry emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection and opening a passage to the unconscious.

I anchor this intent in the very materiality of my works: deliberately abstract, in monochrome tones, nuanced, where darkness coexists with light, where blue crackles at the touch of black, or shines 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 hidden inner aspects.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and the pigments, charcoals, ballpoint pen, and paints, by depositing matter on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrollable result. A heightened singularity.
Thus I 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 you did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable intensely compressed, subtly teased, 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 merge with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. It is two sensibilities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I view them as active beings, creating unprecedented 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 journey toward a new vision of one’s Being, of oneself, the world, and others.

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited now, psychic resonances align and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to take shape, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of one’s soul unfolds, 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 there, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the outcome of that encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or awaiting psychical 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, a listening, a receptacle and remain thus in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical practice, page 146.