Cécile di Giovanni (b.1988) is a French visual artist whose work examines the emotional afterlives of North-American pop culture through domestic memory and fictional architecture. She creates sculptures, installations and hybrid objects that operate like cinematic totems, oscillating between nostalgia, myth-making and set-design aesthetics.
Her practice explores how fragments of popular culture — from media narratives and historical events to fictional spaces and mass-produced objects — can serve as symbolic materials for reshaping personal and collective memory.
Through installations, sculptures, and speculative environments, she reactivates these cultural traces, revealing their potential as emotionally charged vessels for nostalgia, trauma, or projection. By employing processes of reconstitution and détournement, she examines how mass-mediated imagery, deeply embedded in domestic settings and generational memory, can be transformed into sites of intimate resonance or subtle disruption.
Her practice often circles around ideas of home and homecoming, approaching them as unstable thresholds between reality and imagination, a way of inhabiting fictions to revisit the places, myths, and memories that shape belonging.
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
Star Gates: large-scale sculptural gateway
Household: sculptural series exploring domestic totems
Inhabited Fictions: ongoing research
