Agathe Toman - CLOUD #7 2/15

This piece is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art glossy paper photograph with grain. Photographed in Rome, Italy. Spring 2026
The photograph will be sent to you rolled, not framed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be attached to it. Editioned work, hand-signed, with front and back. High-quality pigment-based digigraph print.
Agathe Toman is listed with 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 and poetry, as well as 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 maisons in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Settled today in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed with Sotheby's since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testifying to her rapid ascent and acceptance within prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various exhibitions, 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, oils and acrylics of astonishing intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond what is visible. The canvas exerts a power, offering the echo of her own experiences.

Her drawings, done with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs unsettle with kaleidoscopic abstractions; they overwhelm 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 that characterizes her work. A first collection titled "You will have to learn to smile again" is scheduled for winter 2024.

Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply committed to 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 embodies 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 in the field of contemporary art.

Agathe Toman continues to fascinate and inspire a global audience, offering through her works a window onto 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 psyche and 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 intention within the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, 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, eliciting pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not yet revealed.

A meticulous affinity between my hands and pigments, charcoals, the ballpoint pen and paints, by depositing matter on paper or on 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 inject myself into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. That indescribable intensity, intensely compressed, subtly stirred, which overwhelms us and submerges us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. The emergence of a decisively 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 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 immediacy. I consider them as active beings, forging novel 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, these are psychic resonances that harmonize and align 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 refine human minds, sharpen souls and allow emotions to find an echo, so words can resonate there.
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 psychic 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, an ear, a receptacle and remain thus in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Pathology of General Clinical, page 146.