Estelle Zhong Mengual

Estelle Zhong Mengual is an art historian and the holder of the “Habiter le paysage - l'art à la rencontre du vivant” chair at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences Po Paris, she teaches in the Master d'Expérimentation en Art et Politique (SPEAP), created by Bruno Latour. 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 in art. She is the author of numerous books, including Esthétique de la rencontre. L'énigme de l'art contemporain (with Baptiste Morizot, Seuil, 2018), 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. Les fleurs et Georgia O'Keeffe (Actes Sud, 2022). In 2023, she co-signed with Jérôme Bel the creation Danses non humaines at the Louvre Museum as part of the Festival d'Automne à Paris.