Cecil Serres

Cecil Serres is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, performance, and sculpture. After completing her degree in Fine Arts, she participated in several prestigious residency programs and project spaces. Currently based in France, Cecil Serres has built an extensive international footprint over the past years. Her work operates at the intersection of interspecies relationships and transitional spaces, reflecting on how cultural narratives and spatial structures shape individual perception. Her projects have been featured in numerous institutional solo and group exhibitions, such as Frac Île-de-France (Berserk & Pyrrhia), CAC Brétigny (hmm hmm), and afterhours Paris (Unconditional Lover), alongside features in various international art publications.

Cecil Serres’s artistic practice revolves around a meticulous examination of hybrid animal-human identities and fragile ecological balances. By juxtaposing organic materials with synthetic substances, she constructs critical visual mechanics that invite viewers to re-examine everyday surroundings. Her installations often create a productive friction between unpredictable animality and controlled spatial performativity, highlighting the underlying tensions between attraction and repulsion. Central to her methodological approach is the deployment of mutable, unscripted alter-egos (such as L’Oiseau) and reactive sculptures (such as Boa), which serve as tactile metaphors for the ongoing crisis of sensitivity toward non-human living beings. Through a distinct visual language that balances subtle humor with underlying institutional critique, her works dissect political power dynamics and emotional resonance within modern spaces.