It’s not every day that someone performs a gynaecological exposé at one of the world’s most hallowed art institutions. So it was surprising that the arrest of Deborah de Robertis at the Musée d’Orsay in June 2014 for ‘sexual exhibitionism’ garnered only fleeting media attention. De Robertis is a Luxembourgian performance artist (it sounds like a euphemism, doesn’t it?) who concerns herself with visceral explorations of female sexual taboos in an effort to subvert the male gaze.
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