Agathe Toman - CLOUD #2

This work is part of the artist's "SHARED COLLECTION".
Fine art photography with grain. Photographed in Hossegor, France. Summer 2021.
The photograph will be sent rolled, it is unframed, and will be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, completed and signed by the artist. Numbered work, hand-signed on the front and back. High-quality fine art pigment digital print.
Agathe Toman, an artist, has been listed at Sotheby's since 2021.

Artist biography:
Born in 1989, with French, Austrian, and Czech origins, Agathe Toman is a multidisciplinary French artist whose talent spans painting, poetry, sculpture, drawing, and photography. After studying at the prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and spending years as a stylist with French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago, Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Established in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe is emerging as a rising figure in the contemporary art scene, appreciated both nationally and internationally.


Listed with Sotheby's since 2021, her works have been auctioned three times, demonstrating her rapid rise and acceptance within prestigious art circles. Her remarkable contributions to various exhibitions, notably at Art Paris, have earned her great 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 in motion. Her paintings use pure pigments, inks, oil paints, and acrylics with breathtaking intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, echoing her own experiences.

His drawings, made with a Bic pen, are imbued with a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe's photographs disturb with their kaleidoscopic abstractions; they overwhelm us with calm sensations, reminiscent of a perfect weightlessness that was at our beginning.
His universe is shaped by hundreds of poems, characterized by a lyricism that defines his work. A first collection titled 'You Will Have to Learn to Smile Again' is scheduled for release in winter 2024.


Beyond her artistic practice, Agathe is also deeply engaged in 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 incorporate very profound 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 areas of reflection are not only present in her art; they are an integral part of her artistic identity and personality.


His work has been recognized and celebrated in several renowned publications, including Forbes, L'Oeil, and Elle, marking his 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 the mind and matter. I examine their modes of operation within their environment, the connections they establish, and the vibrations, both perceptible and ineffable, 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 introspective reflection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I inscribe this will into the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, in monochromes, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, blue crackles upon contact with black, or illuminates alone. We are in the absence/presence of light.
My paintings, installations, drawings, and photographs are each an absolute creation, free from any imitation, evoking pure emotion and awakening the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these unrevealed inner aspects.

A meticulous relationship between my hands and the pigments, charcoals, ballpoint pen, and paints, through depositing material on paper or canvas. My execution techniques never repeat themselves, resulting in an uncontrolled outcome. An increased singularity.
I thus 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 we did not suspect. Something unexpected. This indescribable, intensely compressed, subtly stirred force that subjugates and overwhelms us. Water, gravity, bark—these omnipresent elements—transform the observer through their power. 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 'manifestations of psychic states,' human landscapes, threads of my soul, inviting others to merge into them.
Their value is not aesthetic; it lies in the vibrations that 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, creating unprecedented connections between us, within us.

The viewer in turn becomes a creator, bringing the work to life through an alchemy of psychic resonances.

I commit to a journey towards a new vision of one's Being, of oneself, the world, and others.

If the viewer now allows themselves to be invited, it is psychic resonances that align and harmonize in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to establish itself, a rhythm starts to be felt. A morphing of the 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 within them, for words to resonate there.
What is important is what the work mobilizes in us, and the outcome of this 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 certain thoughts but because some processes within him have not found a mirror, an echo, a listening ear, or a receptacle, and thus remain in wandering.