Center Pompidou Metz: one of the tagged works was not protected by glass

One of the five works at the Pompidou-Metz center tagged this week during an operation carried out by the performer Deborah de Robertis was not protected by glass, we learned this Thursday from the museum’s communications department, thus confirming information from The Republican East.

Valie Export’s work was not protected by glass

It is not about The Origin of the World by Gustave Courbet – whose frame, however, could have suffered damage, according to our colleagues at Ballast – but from a photograph of the artist Valie Exportnamed Aktionhose: Genitalpanik. The person reacted on Instagram with these words:

Each work of art has its own language, a language that artists give to their works of art. It is an autonomous language, an autonomous language in which one cannot intervene without the consent of the artist. If this autonomous language is violated by unauthorized intervention by the artist, it is an unauthorized intervention and the autonomy of the work of art is destroyed

“I would like you to consider leaving the work like this” (Deborah de Robertis)

Still on Instagram, Deborah de Robertis also spoke, explaining that he had sent an email to Valie Export on the day of the performance, of which here is an extract:

I want to clarify that this is not an offense, I consider your work to be very inspiring, but it is about asking you for a position as a woman artist in the me too movement. I wish you could at least consider leaving the artwork like this, as a collaboration between the two of us.

A work ofAnnette Messager, I think so I suckhas also been backdoor during this same operation.

Conflict between Deborah de Robertis and Bernard Marcadé

In the background of this affair, there is a conflict between Deborah de Robertis and Bernard Marcadécommissioner of Lacan, the exhibitionthe same one where the recent damage took place.

The precise nature of the conflict between the two is unclear at this point, but the feminist magazine Chat claims that Deborah de Robertis would accuse Bernard Marcadé of sexual assault, which the person concerned denies in an article in Point.

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