15. Epilogue: From Pigments to Pixel

Arnaud Dubois is a social anthropologist of colour, a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientifc Research (CNRS) and an associate researcher at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM). Trained in both art and anthropology, he graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and holds a PhD in social anthropology from the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). His research develops an anthropological approach to colour grounded in an epistemological perspective that brings together science and technology studies, the study of knowledge and the anthropology of art. Through a comparative anthropological lens, he examines the relationship between colour practices and society. Dubois founded the collective Chromoculture to explore processes of colour ecologisation in Europe and the ways interdisciplinary collaborations between art and science may open new perspectives on the production and use of colour in industrial societies. He is the author of La vie chromatique des objets (2019), editor of the journalKUNST, and co-editor of ten books and special issues. He has curated several research-based exhibitions in museums and art centres, and served as scientifc director of the French Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale.