Agathe Toman - CLOUD #8 2/15

This work is part of the artist's "COLLECTION PARTAGÉE".
Fine art glossy paper print 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. Numbered work, hand-signed, with front and back. High-quality pigment-based digigraphie print.
Agathe Toman is listed at 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 École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne and years working as a stylist for French haute couture houses in Paris, nine years ago Agathe felt the need to focus exclusively on her artistic creation.
Now based in the Landes for thirteen years, Agathe asserts herself as an upcoming figure on the contemporary art scene, admired both nationally and internationally.

Listed at Sotheby’s since 2021, her works have gone to auction three times, testifying to her rapid rise and acceptance in prestigious art circles. Her notable contributions to various fairs, notably Art Paris, have earned her immense success, solidifying her presence in 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 with striking intensity, tending to reconnect with hidden things, transporting the viewer beyond the visible. The canvas exerts a power, giving echo to her own experiences.

Her drawings, made with a Bic pen, carry a destabilizing force of attraction.
Agathe’s photographs disturb with kaleidoscopic abstractions, submerging us in calm sensations, memories of a perfect weightlessness, which 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 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 imbues new thickness.

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 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 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 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 carry emotional depth and a certain tension, inviting the viewer to introspective reflection, opening a passage to the unconscious.

I inscribe this intention in the very materiality of my works: resolutely abstract, monochrome, nuanced, where darkness coexists with clarity, where blue crackles against 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, provoking the awakening of the Invisible; my works thus become mirrors of these inner aspects not revealed.

A meticulous kinship between my hands and pigments, charcoal, the ballpoint pen and paints, by depositing matter on paper or 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, to infuse myself into it, for the awakening of a Self.

There is always something one did not suspect. Something unexpected. This unspeakable intensity, intensely compressed, subtly stoked, 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 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 sensibilities meeting rather than two separate identities. It is a living process. The work transcends the immediate. I see them as active beings, creating new bonds between Us, within us.

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

I embark on a path toward a new vision of the Being, of oneself, of the world, and of others.

If the viewer allows themselves to be invited, these psychic resonances harmonize and align in a single symphony, a dialogue begins to take shape, a rhythm is felt. An anamorphosis of their soul is sketched, 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.
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 psychically blocked, or awaiting psychic 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 thus in wandering." René Roussillon - Manual of psychology and psychopathology of general clinical, page 146.