Agathe Toman - CLOUD #8 1/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art photography printed 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, completed and signed by the artist, will be included. Editioned work, hand-signed, front and back. Very high-quality pigment-based digigraph print.
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 ranges from painting to poetry, including sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studies at the prestigious Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years working as a stylist at French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to devote herself exclusively to her artistic creation.
Today 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 with Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testament to her rapid ascent and acceptance within prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, 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, echoing her own experiences.
Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction. Agathe’s photographs unsettle us with kaleidoscopic abstractions, submerging us in calm sensations, reminiscent of perfect weightlessness that existed at our origin. Hundreds of her poems rhythm her universe with a lyricism characteristic of 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 involved in the study of transactional analysis in psychoanalysis, 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 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’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 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 imperceptible, that arise.
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 an introspective reflection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I anchor this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, 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, provoking pure emotion, triggering the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these unspoken inner aspects.

A meticulous closeness between my hands and the pigments, charcoals, ballpoint pen, and paints, by depositing matter onto paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, yielding an uncontrolled result. A heightened singularity.
I therefore work to fix the movement of matter, the density of light, and infuse myself into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable, intensely compressed intensity, subtly stirred, that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent forces transform the observer by their power. The emergence of a distinctly 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. Two sensibilities meet, not 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 one’s Being, of oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited, psychic resonances align in a single harmony, a dialogue begins to settle in, a rhythm is 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 refine human minds, sharpen souls, and for emotions to find an echo, for words to resonate there.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of that encounter.

"Psychic suffering is linked to everything that escapes the process of subjectifying symbolization. We suffer from what is psychically blocked, or awaiting psychic inscription. The human being does not suffer only because of events or certain thoughts, but because certain processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, an ear, a receptacle and remain wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of Psychology and Pathology of General Clinical, p. 146.