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Noémie Etienne (CH): An art historian, Noémie Étienne lives and works in Geneva, Zurich and New York. She wrote a doctoral thesis entitled La restauration des peintures à Paris, published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2012. Her research focuses on the ties between visual culture and material culture, on the notion of the object, the relationships between theories and practices, art history and anthropology, or art, science and crafts. A co-founder of the interdisciplinary nomadic festival Eternal Tour (www.eternaltour.org), she is now planning a residency at the Cairo headquarters of Pro Helvetia.