Born in Paris and of Vietnamese and Greek descent, Giraud examines how memory and language shape human experience and the ways we exercise agency. Her inquiry moves through the fractures of recollection, where what is remembered or forgotten shapes one’s capacity to act and belong.

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Her transdisciplinary practice unfolds at Studio Diane Giraud, an art lab in Lisbon that functions as both research space and site of exchange. Working across sculpture, sound, text, conversation, and performance, she constructs installations that probe the instability of memory, fostering dialogue with researchers, scientists, and the public to create conditions for shared reflection and altered perception.

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Trained in law (Université Paris X Nanterre) and fashion design (University of the Arts London), with early experience at Alexander McQueen, Giraud bridges conceptual inquiry and material precision. Founder of In Limen, a platform for participatory performances, she has collaborated with Culturgest, PADA Studios, and the National Museum of Natural History and Science, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.

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Rooted in making, she engages in repeated processes—casting, writing, listening—to explore how memory and forgetting generate new perceptual and relational spaces.