French authorities have charged the prominent French-Luxembourgish performance artist Deborah de Robertis over the spraying of the words 'MeToo' on five artworks including a famous 19th-century painting of a woman's vulva, a prosecutor said Monday.
French authorities have charged the prominent French-Luxembourgish performance artist Deborah de Robertis over the spraying of the words"MeToo" on five artworks including a famous 19th-century painting of a woman's vulva, a prosecutor said Monday.
Usually held at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, it was being shown on loan at an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in the eastern city of Metz in the Moselle region. De Robertis said at the time she had organised the action, carried out by two other people, as part of a performance titled:"You Don't Separate the Woman from the Artist".
In an open letter, de Robertis denounced the behaviour of six men in the art world, describing them as"predators" and"censors". De Robertis had a work on show in the same Metz exhibition where"The Origin of the World" is being shown.De Robertis is not in detention but under judicial control and banned from appearing at exhibitions or in the Moselle region.
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