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). 

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