Bruno Nassim Aboudrar is Professor of Art History and Theory at the Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III. He is the author of a novel (Ici-bas, 2009) as well as several essays, including: Voir les fous (1999), Nous n’irons plus au musée (2000), La Recherche du beau (2001), Comment le voile est devenu musulman (2014), Qui veut la peau de Vénus? (2016), Le Sueur: les fissures de la perfection (2018).