 So I'm going to introduce you to Marie-Ellen Le Nix, who is the photographer of the exhibit you've seen in the first room. The exhibit is called Infinity Pluriel. And it is a gazelle's portraits of women researchers and their testimonies. So first, I have to thank Université Paris-Saclay for making this exhibit available to us today. And for those of you who are online, some of the pictures will be shown. So, Marie-Ellen, if you want to come in. So Marie-Ellen Le Nix has been interested in photography since she was very young. But it is during her studies at the Beaux-Arts de Rond from 1980 to 1985, that photography became your favorite word of expression. And since then, she has participated in many exhibitions in France and abroad. And I invite you to go on her website to learn more about her work, as soon as she would give us just to talk about this exhibit. There is a bit that I'm supposed to say about your work, but I think you will say it better than me, sorry. Thank you very much. I am very happy to share this moment with you this evening as the exhibition of 15 portraits from my series Infinity Pluriel. I am very happy to see this long-term project come to fruition today. And I would like to thank L'Institut des Hauts études scientifiques for organizing this event tonight and this exhibition. February 11 was declared Woman and Girls in Science Day by the United Nations in 2015. But it was back in 2013 that the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research asked me to design an art project to highlight women scientists. The Ministry's Equality and Antidiscrimination Officer had been enthusiastic about my previous series on the fate of women. One is not born, but becomes a woman. Questioning the representation of women through the photography, I invited 192 women from all over the world to come and be photographed in my studio. From 9 to 90 years old, each one of them took the floor to let us hear what was important for them. They testified, sung, read poems, or text sometimes written, especially for this occasion. This woman's choir allows us to hear the universality of women's aspiration to freedom and equality with men. Indeed, not only are women scientists less numerous than men working in science, but they are far less visible than them. The scientific word is still mostly unknown to the general public. Scientists works in the privacy of their laboratories and are usually far from the media's rumor machine, except when events of a scientific nature impose themselves on us, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or other disasters. But in these cases, most often, the words of experts invited to talk in the media are the words of men. For this exhibition, for this commission, I decided to keep the same modus operandi, the American shot for proximity to the subject, and then an exhibition of life-size photographs, black and white, to unify the series and erase the distraction of colors. I also did interviews with scientists to give them the opportunity to explain to the public how they became scientists and what their research was about. Some of them refer to the difficulties encountered on their way, sometimes because they are women and not always treated equally with their male colleagues in the progress of their careers. From all these interviews, it is clear that for girls to successfully engage in scientific studies, it is important not only to give them a taste for it from childhood, but also so that they feel legitimate and not just tolerated. They must also be supported with the same constancy as for boys. Also, scientific circles have long-known enriching and beneficial the crossing of cultures can be. They are still sometimes reluctant to be enriched by the mixed of women and men. However, when it exists, this mix is recognized everywhere as a real, edit value, whether human, social, or economic. From our exchange, I then wrote a text brief enough to be read in most exhibition settings by a sufficiently curious and attentive audience. I wanted to make their voice heard, but I seldom had the opportunity to accompany the exhibition with sound devices. Nevertheless, I made a film to accompany the exhibition in which each of them is briefly heard. I was fortunate enough to be able to present the entire series at the Sénat Orangerie in Paris in 2015 and was able to gauge the public's interest in this work on that occasion. Thousands of people came, and many took the time to focus on the portraits, some even coming back several times. It is to help change things that since 2013, I have tirelessly exhibited this portrait in dozens of places in France and abroad. Here we are. From Venezuela to China via the USA, Denmark, the Netherlands, Singapore, Morocco, Romania, or Korea. Over time, new portraits were commissioned by universities of French institutes abroad to enrich the series. For example, a French teacher from the University of Missouri Science and Technology in Rola, who had the opportunity to visit the Orangerie exhibition with some students on a study trip to France and to meet me there, brought the exhibition that had just been held in the Allianz Française in Chicago. And a university commissioned me to do 11 portraits of their professor. She is a young lady. In 2017, it is a portrait in the United States. In 2017, I went to Seoul to make portraits of Korean women, which a company needs this exhibition to the Science Museum of Korea. I also went to the Netherlands and to the University of Britain West to do 20 portraits last year. In Paris, I have just made the portraits of two Chinese scientists, a doctoral student and a researcher with work who works on the aging of polymers for French electricity network. They have joined the exhibition that is currently circulating in China. I am very happy to see my work remaining in public over the years, to see more and more concerned by the inequalities of choice and opportunities between girls and boys to dedicate themselves to studies and then carries in sciences. But I am also dismayed by the slow evolution of mentalities and convinced of the absolute necessity to establish a truly egalitarian education between children from the earliest age. Otherwise, progress will take decades because prejudices and dominant stereotypes still prevent women from thinking of themselves as free being who can direct their own lives. Their relegation to rape early marriage and motherhood diverts their attentions and often stops them from engaging in carries where men remain the majority and often dominant. From the beginning, this exhibition was installed in the streets to reach everybody. We immediately noticed, and I sometimes received emails from strangers on this subject, that passersby stopped to meet this woman who were facing them autonomous subjects, able to speak in public, an opportunity still denied to many women around the world. If the progress varies from one country to another, none has yet achieved real equality between women and men. In 2017, 25 large-scale portraits were exhibited on the gate of UNESCO in Paris. I then sent them up on the railings of the National Archive and then to the University of Paris-Otene and finally on the railings of Parisian parks until the Park of Choisie in 2019, where an extremely unrighted stranger repeatedly tagged them with virulent and sexist comments. This is Choisie before and after. If this assaults on the image of women who express themselves in public, where deeply saddening and shocking, it only increased my determination to continue spreading the words of this woman from about 22 different countries everywhere. I hope that the exhibition will also touch your own public. These female role models that highlight to the intelligence of women and their legitimacy to dedicate themselves to scientific careers are there not only to encourage little girls and young women to embrace them, but also their parents and teachers to support and encourage them. They are also there to make main questions their behavior, which is still too often contemptuous of women intelligence. Women whom they still struggle to consider as alter ego in the scientific world as elsewhere. Gender equality is built from early childhood by unculcating respect for and interest in others, which should then be part of our relationships with others throughout our lives. Today, science is at the heart of the constriction of our humanity and our future. And this future cannot and must not be built without the full contribution of women. Thank you. So thank you again. Is there anyone have a question about the exhibition? Should I? Do you have a question? I was wondering in which setting or in which country you felt your exhibition had the most impact. Was it in universities? Was it in the part? Well, obviously, it had an impact in the parks, for sure. But like a positive impact. Thank you. I really think it's very important to show this exhibition to everybody, not to specialist public, for this reason in the streets. We can speak to everywhere. The first is the role models. Because a young girl needs to see that a woman could be a mathematician. And she cannot see that on TV or in films or nearly nowhere. So in the street, one of the pictures is when I was in the exhibition on the street and a young girl stopped with her mother and her mother was thanks to me to do that for the young girls. And I think it's very important. But it's not always the easiest because it's rather very expensive to make big panels. And it's terrific when these panels are scratched. But they were scratched about after three years. So it's not so bad, if I can say. But I lost some of them at each exhibition. But the last one was terrific. We put all in the garbage. But we continue. We go on with this exhibition. And I think the problem is the same in all the country and all over the world. With different numbers because there are more mathematicians in some other countries. I think France is one of the worst countries for the mass, really. And because some countries have a shorter story with science. The French Academy has a long story. A long story, we have put the girl out. No place for them. In French Academy, in art academy, in science academy, women were not accepted. So some other countries who have short stories with science have more girls and women in science. Like Argentina or some of countries of China. Even Turkey or Iran, many women have diplomats. But in France, it's difficult to change mentalities. Thank you. Well, you presented a kind of uniform presentation of ladies around the world. But just as you said now, there are countries where the females are more in front of the scene. And so it will be maybe useful to make a kind of exhibition in order to show where the women are promoted and where the women are not promoted, we think, at Afghanistan, for instance. So I suppose, well, of course, yeah, yeah, OK. So maybe this kind of differentiation, according to the countries and where the women are more promoted, would be maybe useful in order to push the countries where a little bit, a little bit. Even if in countries where women are more promoted, they encounter the same obstacles. Of course. And even in China, there is no equality. And there is no equality in domestic life. And this is a point when you have to take care of the children. When you have to take care of the parents or the people who are with handicap or something like that. Everywhere, in all of the world, this is keep for the women. And it makes a difference. Yeah, it is natural. A great revolution. No, no, no, no, let me see. A great revolution in some sense was the fact that the washing machine have been introduced. But anyway, it facilitates the work of the women. And men use them. Oh, yes. This is my experience. So OK. When I was student a long time ago, one of my professor, Benjamin, was very proud to say to us, he cannot use a washing machine. But he was stupid. I saw that at this time. But I think there is always man like that. Of course. Many of them, too much of them. He is very diverse. Yes, but. Yeah, one thing I would like to say is that the fact that you have those portraits are very different. They're women, but they're also very different. And I think it's also an incentive for everybody, not just the women, but also there are lots of boys who don't project themselves on the standard image of a scientist. And the fact that you have very different people, I would say, is also very good for more people to project, not just women. I think this is also useful for the general public in general, not just the women. That's my feeling. Yes, I think we try to be very large in the representation, to have young people, old one, middle one, from everywhere, 22 countries. I made many portraits with young students. We came from PhD in France, from Cameroon, Tunisia, Argentina, Romania, many places different. And first I want to say when the ministry asked me this project, first I propose to make portraits of men and women. But in 2013, I think now it's nearly the same, we have 25% of women in science and 75% of men. And I wanted just to switch the percentage. But we have not enough money to make a big exhibition. At the beginning I had to do 60 portraits, and I did at last 145 and more than 40 scenes. But I like to mix men and women, but switch the percentage. Because too often when we show the exhibition, it could be in university, not in the streets, but in university, or not in a senate or an jury, where many men came and read all the text. But in university sometimes when we have an inauguration, we are just between us with women. And I think the work is to do with men, of course. I think we need to hurry. But for the people that have questions, I mean, Marie-Lynn is here, so when we'll go to the cocktail afterwards, everyone go ask your question to Marie-Lynn, please. Because that's interesting, and it's just that we don't have that much time. Sorry. So thank you again, Marie-Lynn, for your nice work.