About

Valérie Billet in her studio in Sète

My story

A self-taught artist, I live and work in Sète, in the Quatre Ponts district, in a shared studio that brings together three artists.

Using several media allows me to explore and express my artistic approach in different forms.

My work is rooted in my childhood and inspired by my immediate environment. I am particularly sensitive to everything that touches the human being, to the discovery of the other and to the feeling of incommunicability.

Beyond a purely aesthetic search (form, transparency), I question the imprint, the trace, interaction, memory, the scar, construction. More broadly, my work is guided by a questioning of the notions of identity and reality.

My approach as a visual artist is resolutely experimental and abstract.

As a sculptor, sensitive to the ecological problems of our time, I use repurposed materials (plastic bottles, books, plastic bags, paper, gauze…) which, through their characteristics, open up fields of expression.

My painting is figurative, colourful, sensitive; light has an important place in it. I hope to show the ambiguous and illusory side of appearances.

Milestones

Full exhibition history

The studio

Artelier 41

Quartier des Quatre Ponts
41 rue Pierre Semard, 34200 Sète

Studio visits by appointment.

Contact Valérie
Valérie Billet at an exhibition of the Blocks