Virginie Hotte

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.

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.

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.

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.