02/09/2026
Introducing James Bantone and his solo show at the gallery “Skin Game” opening on September 16, 2026.
James Bantone was born in Geneva, Switzerland (1992) and currently lives and works between Geneva and Paris. The artist graduated with a Bachelor of Art & Media – Video at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2019 and completed the Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in 2021.
James Bantone’s practice moves across photography, sculpture, painting, and video, treating the image as a surface where desire, classification, and projection accumulate. Working with found and self-produced imagery, he is less interested in representation as likeness than in the conditions through which a subject becomes readable: how a surface is charged, misrecognized, circulated, and made available to fantasy, value, and consumption.
“Within Skin Game, the body becomes an image, and images behave like skin: seductive, fragile, and never entirely trustworthy. Moving through desire, intimacy, and unease, this new chapter opens onto a deeper examination of the image’s inherent fragility.” — Eleonora Milani
We are looking forward to see you!
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1,3,4,5- Studio Visit. Courtesy the artist
2.Portrait James Bantone. ©️Jan Antonio Diaz