Virginie
Hotte

Virginie Hotte is a collage artist whose work merges photography, mixed media, and abstract composition to explore the interplay between memory and image. Raised in a family environment that fostered artistic freedom and creative exploration, she developed an early sensitivity to aesthetics and visual language.

Initially trained in law and taxation, Hotte never ceased practicing photography. It was during her expatriation in Mauritius that she decided to fully commit to artistic creation, revisiting the fundamentals of drawing and painting. There, she discovered collage—enriched by mixed techniques—which has since become her medium of choice.

Her compositions combine photographic fragments, graphic elements, and textured materials to create visual dialogues between personal memory and formal construction. Each piece begins with a photograph, often taken during her travels, which she deconstructs, reinterprets, and transforms into mental landscapes or abstract evocations.

Now based in Belgium, Virginie Hotte’s work is part of private collections in France, Belgium, Mexico, and Mauritius.

Her artistic approach is rooted in a desire to slow down perception and reflect on the contemporary flood of images. Through a meticulous process of layering, cutting, and assembling, she develops a pictorial language that lies between figuration and abstraction, real and imagined. Her works question the trace, the passage of time, and the construction of visual memory, placing her firmly within the field of contemporary image-based research.