Cecile Giovannini is an Award winning, Italian-Swiss artist/researcher. In 2018 and 2019, she was selected by competition to work successively in Ticino and then in Genoa for artistic residencies. Narrative is one of the main threads of her work. As a teenager, she had a passion for cinema and collected video tapes which she bought on sale in the local video store where, once her studies were completed, she worked for two years. During this time, Cecile watched more than a dozen movies a week and reinforced her passion for well-told stories. Outside of film, comic books, Catholic sacred art, pagan legends and popular art forms feed her artistic work through which she speaks of an inner world oscillating between dream and reality. Her work explores the relationship between the body and its environment through various mediums such as painting, video, animation or installation. In 2019, she was awarded the Artpro multi-year grant, for her graphic novel project. In 2022, two of these visuals receive the Merit award from the prestigious mag 3X3. She is also a member of the Avocat Studio, a creative workshop and association founded in 2016: www.avocat-studio.com