Cécile Davidovici is a French visual artist known for her hyper-realistic embroidered works that explores the intimate dimension of time, where everyday gestures reveal traces that connect the present to the eternal.
Originally trained in cinema and theater, she shifted to textile art in 2018 following a personal loss, finding in embroidery a tactile, meditative form of storytelling.
Her technique—layering cotton threads to mimic light, shadow, and texture—treats embroidery with the sensibility of a painter, allowing fleeting gestures to become portals to memory and permanence. Alongside her solo practice, she collaborates with artist David Ctiborsky as part of the duo Davidovici and Ctiborsky.
Shows
2025 - The Rose that grew from concrete - Sant' Orsola Museum - Florence, Italy
2025 - Karte Blanche -group show- CitizenK - Paris
2024 - Pick your way -group show- Lee-Bauwens Gallery - Brussels
2023 - La vie silencieuse - Cécile Davidovici et David Ctiborksy - Est Galerie - Paris
2021 - Get a load of this! Curated by Mollie E Barnes - Daniel Raphaël Gallery - London
2019 - Project <<1988 - mi*galerie - Paris
Residency
2024 - Sant' Orsola Museum, Florence, Italy
Auctions
2023 - International Women's Day Auction with Art On a Post Card, UK - Curated by Bakul Patki
2022 - Fundraising Auction for Arms around the child at CHRISTIES, UK - Curated by Jason Colchin Carter
Publications
Restoration Conversations Magazine / Linda Falcone / The eye of the needle
CitizenK / filmed Interview / Zoé Terouinard / Cécile Davidovici, Brodeuse 2.0
Elle Décoration Magazine dans le cadre de la parution du livre Broderies de Audrey Demarre
Arquitectura y Diseño (printed issue) / Itziar Narro / Arte entre costuras
Fisheye Magazine / Zoé Terouinard / Cécile Davidovici et David Ctiborsky : « On vit une époque où il faut plus que jamais penser nos outils »
L'Officiel Art / Mélanie Mendelewitsch / La broderie est un médium merveilleux, méditatif et même réparateur
Beaux Arts Magazine / Sarah Belmont / 5 étonnantes portraitistes qui manient le fil avec talent
M le Magazine du monde / Diane Lisarelli / Cécile Davidovici, l'artiste qui peint avec du fil
Time Out / Zoé Terouinard / La vie silencieuse, Cécile Davidovici et David Ctiborsky
Beaux Arts Magazine / Maïlys Celeux-Lanval / Artiste à suivre
This is Colossal / Jackie Andres / Meticulous Embroideries
El Espectador / Andrea Jaramillo Caro / El arte de pintar con aguja e hilo
It's nice that / Roz Jones / C.Davidovici uses embroidery to tell the story of unspoken melancholia (...)
Arts in the city / Nathan Bizeau / Cette brodeuse joue avec les fils à la manière d’une peintre
Metal Magazine / Eve McInstosh / Under the surface of a sewn portrait
Artistik Rezo / Agathe Bourdeauducq
Create Magazine (printed issue) curated by Christopher Jobson
Create Magazine / Christina Nafziger / Making Tangible Images
Caillou Paris / Juliette Lelorier / Le geste de la main par Cécile Davidovici
9Lives Magazine / Bérengère Chamboissier / Cécile Davidovici à la mi* galerie avec <<1988
Les Inrockuptibles / Alice Pfeiffer / printed issue
Les Inrockuptibles / Alice Pfeiffer / Les broderies post-modernes de Cécile Davidovici
TextileArtist / Charlotte Mills / Cécile Davidovici : Embroidered videotape moments
Podcasts
2024, Femmes d'Arts, Episode #59, Marie-Stéphanie Servos
