Cécile di Giovanni (b.1988) is a French visual artist working across sculpture, installation, and fictional environments. Her practice examines how the afterlives of popular culture (shaped by domestic memory, media mythologies, and cinematic aesthetics) generate new forms of imaginary architecture.
Through reconstructed objects, hybrid props, and set-like installations, she explores how mass-produced images migrate from childhood spaces into cultural memory. Her work often returns to themes of home, homecoming, and the unstable border between fiction and lived experience.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain (Bordeaux), and HEAD – Genève, as well as in independent spaces in Los Angeles and Brussels.
Education & Residencies
2025
DNSEP (MFA equivalent), École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
Villa Albertine, Los Angeles, Independent Research Residency
2010 - 2012
Studies at Villa Arson, Nice
2008 - 2010
BA studies in Visual Arts, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence
Selected Exhibitions
2024 - 2025
Sleeping Beauty: Episode 1, Big Appple, Brussels
Rayon Jouets, Hangar Y, Meudon
2023
Smart Pawn, Los Angeles
Barbe à Papa, CAPC, Bordeaux
2021
You Will Never Walk Alone, Goswell Road, Paris
current projects
Stargates — large-scale installation (in development)
Household — sculptural series (ongoing)
