Agathe Toman - CLOUD #7 3/15

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art glossy paper print with a lot of grain. Photograph taken in Rome, Italy. Spring 2026
High-quality pigment fine art print on glossy paper.
The photograph will be mailed to you rolled, unframed, and a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist, will be included. Editioned work, hand-signed, with front and back.
Agathe Toman is listed by 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 Parisian Couture Syndicate and several years as a stylist for French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the necessity to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Based today in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an up-and-coming figure on the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.

Listed by Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance within prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various shows, including Art Paris, have earned her immense success, consolidating her presence in private collections around the world.

Agathe’s palette favors deep blacks and blues, a discreet chromaticism in motion. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oils and increasingly intense acrylics, which tend to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, offering the echo to her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs unsettle with their kaleidoscopic abstractions, overwhelming us with calm sensations, a reminiscence of perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning.
Her hundreds of poems color her universe with a lyricism characteristic of 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 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 dissociate her art from her social commitments. She focuses 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 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 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 inexpressible, 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 toward the unconscious.

I embed this will in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue sparks on contact with black, or lights up alone. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, freed from imitation, eliciting pure emotion, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous intimacy between my hands and the pigments,Conte crayon, the ballpoint pen and the paints, by 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 motion 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, subtly stirred, which 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 in aesthetics; it lies in the vibrations my works create in the viewer. They are two sensitivities meeting, 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 invite a path toward a new vision of one’s Being, oneself, the world, and others.

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, there are psychic resonances that align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to settle, 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 there, for words to resonate.
What matters is what the work mobilizes in us, and the result of this encounter.

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