An independent curator, art critic, and philosopher by training, Évelyne Artaud directs the "Art et littérature" collection at Seuil. Author, she notably published Franta, les écritures du corps at Cerlce d'art in 2000. Curator of exhibitions, she conceives and diffuses for twenty years monographic and thematic exhibitions, thus drawing a path of passion in contemporary painting and regularly collaborates with the Museum of Vence and Villa Tamaris.