Cécile di Giovanni’s practice explores how fragments of North American popular culture — spanning media narratives, historical events, 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.
Selected Shows
2024
Sleeping Beauty: Episode 1, co-curated by Encore Label and Big Appple, produced by Encore Label, Big Appple, Brussels, BE (solo)
Rayon Jouets, co-curated by Cédric Fauq and Anne Monier, Hangar Y, Meudon, FR
Preservations, co-curated by Paul Hameline and Paige Silveria, Cor
Studio, Paris, FR
2023
Smart Pawn, co-curated by Romain Sarrot and Edouard NG, Los Angeles, US
Barbe à Papa, curated by Cédric Fauq, Capc Museum of Contemporary
Art, Bordeaux, FR
2022
Dark Places: part I. Go to Church. Or the Devil will get you!, Nord Fiction, installation in collaboration with Bankal & Decker, Normandy, FR
Autorité de l’Auteur, curated by Tristan Savoy, Atelier des Vertus, Paris, FR
2021
You Will Never Walk Alone, Goswell Road, Paris, FR (solo)
2020
Hysteria, curated by Goswell Road, Biennale Carbone, Saint-Etienne, FR
2019
I’ll See You in the Ether, curated by Jonny Negron, Hunter Shaw Fine Arts, Los Angeles, US
Beyond the Balls, curated by Inès Renaudin, Espace Beauregard, Paris FR
2018
Le Lucky, curated by Josep Maynou, HVW8, Berlin, DE
Internet Psychoanalysis, curated by Lauren Huret, LiveInYourHead, HEAD, Genève, CH
For One Night Only, curated by Bobby Dowler, La Sira, Asnières, FR
Aztech, curated by Anatole Maggiar, Chez Mohamed Galerie, Material Art Fair, Mexico, MX
La Fureur Du Dragon, installation in collaboration with Mohamed Bourouissa, Studio 13/16, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2017
Sur Rendez-Vous, Galerie Arnaud Deschin, Paris, FR
2015
Secondes Vies : Métamorphoses du Matériel Sportif, curated by Alexandrine Dhainaut, initiated by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Sports, traveling exhibition (Roland Garros Museum, Ministry of Culture, etc.), Paris, FR
2014
Endurance, Le PLAC (Petit Lieu de l’Art Contemporain), La Seyne-sur-Mer, FR (solo)
2012
Il n’y a pas de révolution en vacances, curated by Manuel Publications, Straat Galerie, Marseille, FR
Performances
2023
Holmes Castle Fan Fest ’23, conference performance, Capc Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, FR
2019
Ensemble, in collaboration with Mathilde Fernandez as part of "La Manutention: Performeurs en Résidence", curated by Vittoria Matarrese, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2018
Internet Ballad, as part of the group exhibition Internet Psychoanalysis, curated by Lauren Huret, LiveInYourHead, HEAD, Geneva, CH
Au Revoir Mon Visage, performance in collaboration with Mathilde Fernandez, Do Disturb festival, curated by Vittoria Matarrese, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2017
Porter La Peau De Sa Victime, performance in collaboration with Mathilde Fernandez, Do Disturb festival, curated by Vittoria Matarrese, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Residencies
2019
Ensemble, in collaboration with Mathilde Fernandez "La Manutention: Performeurs en Résidence," curated by Vittoria Matarrese, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2012
Il n’y a pas de révolutions en vacances, curated by Manuel Publications (Chloé Curci, Hélène Garcia, Io Burgard), Marseille, FR
Lectures
2024
Enquête à Big Appple, Sleeping Beauty, Big Appple, Bruxelles, BE
Exploring Horror: Shaping Identity, ArtisticExpression, and Queer Experience, Paris Ass Book Fair, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2019
Inrocks talks Marseille, moderated by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Montévideo, Marseille, FR
Books & Catalogs
2023
Visionary Alliance, edited by Kermesse Éditions
2021
Jeepers Creepers, in collaboration with photographer Boris Camaca, published by Goswell Road
Mass Hysteria, edited par Goswell Road
My work seeks to explore how this sense of belonging — this symbolic territory — can be critically revisited and reactivated through artistic practice. In doing so, I often engage with narratives marked by ambivalence or catastrophe, reworking them as spaces of personal projection, cultural memory, and ethical questioning. These stories, whether tragic, mythologized, or culturally fraught, become lenses through which to interrogate how we inhabit fiction, and how fiction, in turn, inhabits us.
Selected Publications
2021
Mass Hysteria, edited by Goswell Road
2020
Code 01 : A Fold in Time Here and Elsewhere, edited by Code Magazine
2015
Intersection magazine, Portrait
2012
Manuel #1 : Il n’y a pas de Révolutions en Vacances, edited by Manuel Publications
Art Fairs
Aztech - Chez Mohamed Galerie (Anatole Maggiar, Asnières-sur-Seine-Taroudant), Material Art Fair, Mexico City, MX
Education
2025
DNSEP (MFA) in Fine Arts, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, France
2010 - 2012
Villa Arson, Nice, FR
2009 - 2010
Professional Bachelor's in Advertising, IUT Illkirch, Alsace, FR
2007 - 2009
Bachelor's 1st and 2nd years in Visual Arts, University of Provence, Aix- en-Provence, FR
