Meeting on 22 January at 7pm to discuss BOVARY, an essay by François Aubart published in 2025 by Les Pérégrines.

A discussion between François Aubart, art historian, and Ana Mendoza, exhibition curator, moderated by Clémence Agnez, art critic.

While Gustave Flaubert's seminal novel Madame Bovary has stood the test of time as a literary classic, the multiple archetypes embodied by Emma Bovary—eternal adolescent, adventuress of desire, porn star, oppressed rebel, and gullible victim of mass culture—constitute a gallery of characters unlike any other.

François Aubart puts into perspective the impressions left by this heroine on an artistic level to analyse how, by shedding new light on our relationship with melancholy and imagination, they enable us to consider issues of class and gender.

A doctor of aesthetics, art critic, exhibition curator and publisher, François Aubart teaches art history and theory at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy. He is the author of L'Attitude de la Pictures Generation. Excès, passion et manipulation (Presses du réel, 2023) and has published Ce que Sylvère Lotringer n'écrivait pas (Paraguay, 2022) with François Piron. Together with Camille Pageard, he founded the publishing house Même pas l'hiver.