Born in 1988 in Paris, Sybil Coovi Handemagnon graduated from ENSA Bourges. A multidisciplinary artist, Sybil Coovi Handemagnon works with the photographic medium as a technology of representation and a vector for the fabrication of fictions. Her projects deal with colonial archives, their circulation, their re-articulation and the way they still contaminate collective imaginations by maintaining fantasies and fixist stereotypes. Calling upon the specters imprisoned in them, Sybil Coovi Handemagnon seeks to create connections, conditions of hesitation, inabilities to categorize through/with/on these archives, to question their latency.
Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the ENSBA in Lyon, the Hasard Ludique in Paris, and the Beursschouwburg in Brussels.