Bettina Henni was born in 1984 in Nice. She lives in the Baronnies Provençales, working as an author of imagery—illustrator, engraver, printer. Her art explores the frontiers of writing and drawing, inventory and storytelling. Fascinated by proto-languages and influenced by raw and primitive art forms, popular arts, folklore, vernacular knowledge and arte povera techniques, she founded the Riso print shop Papier Machine (2011-2020) and began to self-publish her books, drawn using a limited lexicon of repeated forms and gestures.