Born in 1995, Cécile Cornet lives and works in France. First graduating from a Research Master's degree in Gender Studies, she began a self-taught artistic career in 2019. In 2020, she joined the Art and Image training of the artist JR, at the Kourtrajmé school.
Sometimes a refuge, sometimes a prison, she works on everything that makes the home, an intimate place, a space in reality collective and political. Paintings and installations denounce the assignment of the feminine to the private sphere, while establishing a link between capitalism and domestic work. By relying on contemporary objects, technologies such as social networks, advertising or cinema, her experiments cover notions of home, work, family, class, and gender.
Her approach is an individual testimony that contributes and ultimately belongs to the narration of a collective identity, through the prism of a popular social environment.
Her work has notably been exhibited at Centquatre, Château La Coste, Galleria Continua and Fernand Léger's Art Center. After a residency in 2023 at the Ateliers Médicis, she won the Danysz Prize for contemporary creation. In 2024, she enters into residence at Artagon Marseille. Her series #StayAtHomeGirlfriend, is presented within La Relève at the Château de Servières. She is currently developing a collaborative painting and performance project, with a group of housewives, part of a process of the Art of Maintenance (Mierle Laderman Ukeles, 1969).
