Cécile di Giovanni (b. 1988) is a French visual artist working across sculpture, installation, and constructed environments. Her practice explores how popular fiction operates as a substitute domestic space, shaping intimacy, memory, and identity while producing a lasting sense of displacement, absence, and desire.
Through reconstructed objects, hybrid props, and set-like installations, she traces how mass-produced images migrate from childhood interiors into cultural memory, forming fragile architectures of belonging. Rather than representing the home itself, her work addresses the impossibility of fully returning to it, revealing how fictional narratives simultaneously shelter, structure, and displace lived experience.
Her projects articulate this tension across different scales, from the body to the object, from domestic space to architectural fiction, positioning popular culture as both an emotional refuge and a site of unresolved longing.
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
2025
DNSEP (MFA equivalent), École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
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)
