Virginie Hotte

Virginie Hotte

Collagist


Virginie Hotte is a contemporary collage and mixed-media artist whose visual language is rooted in photography, texture, and layered composition.

Raised in a family environment that valued creativity and freedom of expression, she developed an early sensitivity to aesthetics that continues to shape her artistic practice today.

Initially trained in law and taxation, she maintained a strong connection to photography throughout her career. Her artistic path fully emerged during her years in Mauritius, where she returned to drawing and painting and discovered mixed-media collage, which has since become her signature medium.

Her work blends photographic fragments, graphic elements, and textured materials, creating compositions that explore the relationship between memory, perception, and visual construction. Each piece reflects a personal yet contemporary approach to collage.

Now based in Belgium, Virginie Hotte’s artworks are part of private collections in France, Belgium, UK, Mexico, Cambodia, and Mauritius.


Nature

Inspired by a close observation of the living world, I create mixed-media collages combining my own photographs, paper, paint, and textured materials. 

Trees, leaves, branches, birds, amphibians, and insects emerge as fragile, fragmented, and reimagined presences within each composition.

Every artwork explores the tension between organic spontaneity and visual construction, between delicacy and vitality, offering a contemporary interpretation of nature-inspired collage art.

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She/They

Inspired by my photographs of mural paintings found in New York’s urban landscape, I create mixed-media collages combining paper, paint, and textured materials.

I integrate the female figure as a free, multifaceted, and interior visual construction.

Each artwork explores the tension between visibility and withdrawal, strength and fragmentation, revealing a contemporary perspective on identity and presence.

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New York

In this New York series, I compose works from photographic fragments, urban signs, graphic textures, and pictorial interventions. These elements overlap and interact to convey the intense rhythm, energy, and constant change of the city.

Through mixed media compositions, I highlight the architecture, visual density, and saturation of signs that characterize New York's urban space.

Each work presents itself as a reinterpreted fragment of New York's emblematic atmosphere, between visual memory, sensory perception, and artistic reconstruction.

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Mauritius

My sources of inspiration for the Mauritius series come from my own photographs as well as those of Mauritian photographer Kevan Cadinouche, whom I met in 2024. Using these images, I created collages, incorporating paper, paint, and textures.

Color acts as an element of rupture or tension, detached from any realistic intention. I do not seek to reproduce Mauritius in a documentary manner, but rather to offer a visual interpretation structured around fragments, formal associations, and contrasts. In this process, the photographs become plastic materials at the service of an autonomous visual construction.

Mauritius is a series in which the photographic archive becomes living material. The territory is not represented as a geographical location, but conceived as a space for composition, from which memory, perception, and plastic language are articulated.

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