Preserving Legacy in Art, Erasing It in Science

An evening with Dr Audrey-Flore Ngomsik and art advisor Sterenn Denys examining what happens when documentation systems work, and what happens when they don't.

Sterenn Denys spent three decades building rigorous protocols to document art collections. Every painting gets verified provenance. Every acquisition gets traced. Every transfer gets recorded. Legacy planning ensures future generations inherit the full story, not a redacted version.

This documentation infrastructure exists. It works. Museums and collectors rely on it daily.

Dr Audrey-Flore Ngomsik's research shows what happens when those same standards aren't applied. Women scientists whose contributions were systematically undocumented. Patents filed without their names. Research published under male colleagues. Discoveries attributed to men who walked in after the work was done.

No provenance verification. No legacy planning. No traceability protocols.

Same institutions. Different standards.