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Deborah de Robertis next to her performance “Mirror of the Origin of the World” carried out in 2014 at the Musée d’Orsay and which created controversy.
CULTURE – She claims her action. The Franco-Luxembourgish performance artist Deborah de Robertis revealed that she was at the origin of the tags on the work of Gustave Courbet The origin of the world exhibited at the Pompidou center in Metz this Monday, May 6.
Deborah de Robertis, specialist in works related to sex and women, is not her first success. In 2014, she caused a scandal at the Musée d’Orsay by reproducing life-size The origin of the world which was then exposed there.
“For me, there is nothing good or bad, violent or gentle, in this “gesture”. It was all in the way I observed the scene in front of me. Just something powerful. By putting myself in this pose, I became a spectator of a scene”she explained to Figaro after his performance. “Creating a buzz was not the goal. It’s the art, the goal”she added.
Works tagged and stolen
In 2018, she also paraded topless with four other “Marianne” during the Yellow Vest protests. Bare breasted, impassive, with marble faces, the five women in red jackets/Phrygian caps – but with a cockade in the colors of the Royal Air Force – had faced the gendarmes, peacefully.
The same year, she again caused scandal for having stood naked in the grotto of the sanctuary of Lourdes. She was fined 2,000 euros in 2020 for this service. She has also been acquitted several times, notably in 2017 for having shown her genitals at the Louvre Museum in front of “ The Mona Lisa »in Paris.
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This Monday’s action was called “ We do not separate the woman from the artist”. Two women tagged “ MeToo » on The origin of the world as well as a work by Valie Export, detailed Deborah de Robertis to AFP. In total, five works were tagged, according to the Center Pompidou-Metz.
Another was stolen by another person who participated in the action, a red embroidery on fabric by Annette Messager called “ I think so I suck” (1991). Asked on this point by AFP, Deborah de Robertis confirmed a “ gesture of reappropriation ».
Mirror of the Origin of the world
The 40-year-old artist briefly published a video on a visitor and a photographer. In the background, screams “ MeToo » resonate in the exhibition gallery.
Deborah de Robertis explained to AFP that she wanted “ challenge the history of art » notably by tagging MeToo on this famous board “ because women are the origin of the world”.
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A work by Deborah de Robertis, called Mirror of the Origin of the world is also exhibited near Courbet’s painting for the Center Pompidou-Metz exhibition dedicated to the psychoanalyst Lacan. This is the photo of her posing naked in front The origin of the world… during his 2014 performance at the Musée d’Orsay.
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