30.03.24 — 16:00
CN D Pantin
In this talk, art historian Estelle Zhong Mengual shares her current research. How can images serve as entry points to another way of relating to the living world? How can a new procession of animal and plant figures and representations emerge to repopulate our imaginations and move into our emotional worlds? Based on a selection of images from different eras and media, from art and other fields, this talk takes the form of an interrogation: can we transform the image we have of the living world, by enriching the inner images that live within us, the multitude of images seen and experienced that make up our mental gallery, both intimate and collective?
Estelle Zhong Mengual
Estelle Zhong Mengual is an art historian. She teaches in the Master of Experimentation in Art and Politics (SPEAP), created by Bruno Latour, at Sciences Po Paris. She holds the chair Inhabiting the landscape: artistic practices of hospitality for living things at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her current research focuses on the relationship that art, past and present, has with the living world. She is notably working on the elaboration of an environmental history of art, which proposes a new regime of attention to the representation of the living world in art, using the tools of environmental humanities and the most contemporary natural sciences.
She is the author of numerous books, including Apprendre à voir. Le point de vue du vivant (Actes Sud, 2021), EcoloObs prize for the best essay in environmental thought of the year 2021, and Peindre au corps à corps. Flowers and Georgia O'Keeffe (Actes Sud, 2022).