Agathe Toman - CLOUD #8 2/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION."
Fine art glossy paper photograph with grain. Photographed 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. Signed and numbered work, with the signature visible on the front and back. High-quality pigment-based digigraph print on fine art paper.
Agathe Toman is listed with 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 École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years working as a stylist for French couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Based today in the Landes region for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an emerging figure on the contemporary art scene, admired both nationally and internationally.

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

Agathe’s palette favors deep tones of black and blue, a discreet chromatic in motion. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils, and acrylics with breathtaking intensity, 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 trouble us with their kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, memories 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 entitled “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 infused with new densities.

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 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 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 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 ineffable, that arise.
I explore themes such as identity, memory, the nature of humanity, and the relationship between the individual and their environment. My works bear emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspection, opening a passage toward the unconscious.

I embed this intent in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, 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, freed from imitation, evoking pure emotion, triggering the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

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

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable, intensely compressed, subtly fanned, which usurps and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark, these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. 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 with them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the observer. These are two sensitivities meeting, no longer two separate individuals. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I consider them living 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 lets themselves be invited, then psychic resonances align and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to settle, a rhythm is felt. 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 for emotions to find an echo in them, for words to resonate there.
What matters is what the work mobilizes within us, and the result of that encounter.

"Psychic suffering is tied to everything that escapes the process of subjectivizing symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or awaiting 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 remain wanderers." René Roussillon - Manuel de psychologie et de psychopathologie de clinique générale, page 146.