Cecile Renoult

Cécile Renoult is a visual artist and art critic based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke. After completing a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, she studied at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims before earning a Master’s degree in International Research and Creation at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Art Studies and Practices at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Her work has been exhibited in various art centers and institutions, including the CAMAC Art Center (2017), Galerie Michel Journiac (2022), La Fileuse – Friche artistique de Reims (2022), Céline Bureau (2023), the Union Française de Montréal (2024), and the Art-image exhibition center in Gatineau (2025). She received the Prix Prisme (2021) and the Prix Michel Journiac (2022), and her writing is regularly featured in art catalogues and journals.

Through both her artistic and research practices, Renoult creates spaces of resonance where the persistence of memory intersects with contemporary social and ecological concerns, questioning the permeability of our relationship to the world.

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Cécile Renoult’s practice investigates the memories embedded within bodies and places. Through video, sculpture, and photography, she approaches individual and social bodies as sensitive surfaces where memories settle, imprint themselves, and softly resonate.

Working with abstraction—through processes of dilution, erasure, and displacement—she seeks to materialize the emotions triggered by the fleeting emergence of memory, that brief moment when something surfaces only to fade. Rather than narrating memory, her work captures its ephemeral and sensorial presence.

Her photogrammetries, created while moving through the urban landscape, fragment the environment and evoke the diffuse and incomplete nature of remembrance. This technique transforms physical displacement into an act of photographic capture: the body situated in the real becomes both a perceptive and recording instrument. Through this process, Renoult reveals the porosity of our relationship to the world—one that we shape as much as it shapes us.