Vanessa Billy

Vanessa Billy  is a Swiss artist whose work includes collages, sculptures and installations and revolves around themes like cycles of life, circulation, transfer, environmental issues, displacing, reuse of found materials, the explorations with the material, its respective functionality and reaction to other materials.
Circulation, transfer and displacement are key elements of Billy’s works. In her sculpturally led practice she uses organic and synthetic, man-made materials; by-products and end-products of processes, whether industrial or daily, that have been devalued and isolated from their natural lifecycles. Her works occupy space with a corporeal but vulnerable presence, highlighting the various discrepancies in the relationship between man and earth.