She claimed responsibility for her act shortly after discovering the tagged painting. A Franco-Luxembourgish performer, Deborah de Robertis, was “indicted on May 29”confirmed to theAFP the public prosecutor Yves Badorc, this Monday, June 3, confirming information from the World.
The defendant defended an artistic gesture
She was charged with “deliberate damage or deterioration of cultural property” during a meeting as well as the theft of cultural property during a meeting, the magistrate said. At the beginning of May, five works, including the painting The origin of the world by Gustave Courbet, had been tagged at the Center Pompidou-Metz (Moselle). A work had also been stolen.
Deborah de Robertis – whose work was also present at this exhibition – had claimed from theAFP a gesture of “reappropriation” an embroidery by Annette Messager, which came from the personal collection of an art critic who also curated the exhibition Lacan, when art meets psychoanalysis.
Two other women under judicial supervision
The artist was placed under judicial supervision with, in particular, a ban on appearing in a place of exhibition of cultural goods or a ban on appearing in the French department of Moselle, where Metz is located, said the public prosecutor.
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Two other women, born in 1986 and 1993, who had tagged “MeToo” the works, had been arrested on May 6, the same day of the action, after having been dragged towards the exit of the exhibition dedicated to the psychoanalyst Lacan at the Center Pompidou-Metz. They were also charged and placed under judicial supervision.
The three women are prohibited from coming into contact with each other.
