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Benoît Billotte
(Swiss, b. 1983. Lives and works between Geneva and Metz, France)
Benoit Billote photographed by Magali Dougados.
Benoît Billotte graduated from the Art Metz and holds a MFA degree from HEAD (Haute école d’art et de design de Genève), the University of Art and Design in Geneva.
He has obtained several residencies such as in French Institut of Maroco at Tetouan (2018), Casa Suiza of Buenos Aires (2018), the Swiss Institute in Rome (2013), and the art center Parc Saint Léger (2010) and a grant by Pro Helvetia in Shanghai (2016).
His works have already been shown in various institutions such as Magasin Grenoble and Shanghai Moca Pavilion in 2016, Centre Pompidou Metz in 2013, FRAC Lorraine Metz in 2011, and Nancy Fine Art Museum in 2010. In 2014 he got Jeunes Talents contemporains price of Fondation François Schneider and in 2010 he received an award during the Swiss Art Awards at Basel.
His practice is fundamentally rooted in drawing, understood as a method of analysis and spatial investigation, and extends into printmaking and installation. Engaging with archives, cartography, scientific imagery, and architectural structures, his work examines how knowledge is produced, disseminated, and naturalized. Through layered lines and modular forms, he reveals the subtle ideologies embedded in representations of territory, landscape, and nature.
Find out more on: artist website.
Available artworks
Benoît Billotte, Florilège des nouveaux mondes, 2023-2024
Photogravure on fresh banana leaves
diameter 30 cm with the frame
CHF 1,200 Benoît Billotte, Les Voyageuses (corne d’abondance), 2023
Engraving print on fresh banana leaves
40 x 30 cm, framed with anti–reflective UV Protection glass
CHF 800
Both presented in the exhibtion Room for a View,
Florilège des nouveaux mondes is a body of work born from careful observation and time spent across different cultures by the artist, discovering the many uses of plant leaves. From vine leaves used for steaming in Switzerland, to lotus leaves in East Asia, to banana leaves serving as cookware and plates in South America, the artist traces shared gestures around the world. In this work, the artist combined these everyday practical uses with a much older impulse: the desire to adorn our eating vessels with botanical imagery. Banana leaves become both surface and symbol, printed with photogravure images drawn from the ceramics collection of the Musée Ariana in Geneva, where the artist was in residence. A delicate dialogue unfolds between function and ornament, tradition and transformation.
Les Voyageuses (corne d’abondance) is part of a series of engraving prints on fresh banana leaves, created in 2023. Drawing from encyclopedic botanical plates, the images are repeated and superimposed, disrupting scientific recognition and forming a dense vegetal surface. The works pay homage to so-called “traveling plants” (banana, coffee, tea, pineapple, hevea) species that have circulated globally alongside human exploration and colonization. As the banana leaf dries, it wrinkles, tears, and transforms, becoming both fragile and resilient. This evolving support questions not only the temporality of these plants, but also the permanence of human knowledge and representation.
He has obtained several residencies such as in French Institut of Maroco at Tetouan (2018), Casa Suiza of Buenos Aires (2018), the Swiss Institute in Rome (2013), and the art center Parc Saint Léger (2010) and a grant by Pro Helvetia in Shanghai (2016).
His practice is fundamentally rooted in drawing, understood as a method of analysis and spatial investigation, and extends into printmaking and installation. Engaging with archives, cartography, scientific imagery, and architectural structures, his work examines how knowledge is produced, disseminated, and naturalized. Through layered lines and modular forms, he reveals the subtle ideologies embedded in representations of territory, landscape, and nature.
Find out more on: artist website.
Available artworks
Photogravure on fresh banana leaves
diameter 30 cm with the frame
CHF 1,200
Engraving print on fresh banana leaves
40 x 30 cm, framed with anti–reflective UV Protection glass
CHF 800
Florilège des nouveaux mondes is a body of work born from careful observation and time spent across different cultures by the artist, discovering the many uses of plant leaves. From vine leaves used for steaming in Switzerland, to lotus leaves in East Asia, to banana leaves serving as cookware and plates in South America, the artist traces shared gestures around the world. In this work, the artist combined these everyday practical uses with a much older impulse: the desire to adorn our eating vessels with botanical imagery. Banana leaves become both surface and symbol, printed with photogravure images drawn from the ceramics collection of the Musée Ariana in Geneva, where the artist was in residence. A delicate dialogue unfolds between function and ornament, tradition and transformation.
Les Voyageuses (corne d’abondance) is part of a series of engraving prints on fresh banana leaves, created in 2023. Drawing from encyclopedic botanical plates, the images are repeated and superimposed, disrupting scientific recognition and forming a dense vegetal surface. The works pay homage to so-called “traveling plants” (banana, coffee, tea, pineapple, hevea) species that have circulated globally alongside human exploration and colonization. As the banana leaf dries, it wrinkles, tears, and transforms, becoming both fragile and resilient. This evolving support questions not only the temporality of these plants, but also the permanence of human knowledge and representation.