Cindy Bannani graduated from the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble (2018) and the Haute École d’Art de Berne (2020). Research is her primary medium, a foundational gesture of her practice. She works from an intimate space, from which she explores the erased narratives of memory. From video to embroidery, her artistic gesture gives voice and body to marginalized stories, including those of Maghrebi immigration in France.

She engages in both research and form, and through a single gesture, she both transmits and questions the modes of transmission of narratives. Her works, erected as counter-models of storytelling, rethink the writing of history, the use of language, and the construction of images. New ways of (re)telling stories emerge. Her works become collective and hospitable spaces within which everyone is invited to reclaim their own history. Thus, for Cindy Bannani, research is a plastic tool in the service of the commons.

She currently works at the OE studio in Montreuil. Her work received the Visual Arts Grant from the city of Grenoble in 2019 for her research on the origins and semantic shifts of the word “beurette.” From November 2022 to March 2023, she was a resident at the Magasin CNAC, where she presented her first solo exhibition “Les 35 et les 99,965 autres”. She has recently participated in the exhibitions “Construire un feu”, No Étoile, Montreuil, curated by Juliette Hage (2024), A “LIBERATED SPACE”, Kunstraum beim Bahnhof Bümpliz Nord, Bern, curated by Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo (2024), as well as the 68th edition of the Salon de Montrouge (2025).

Cindy Bannani was born in 1992. She lives and works in the Parisian region.