The 34-year-old is due to appear in court at Tarbes next May. She says police threatened to have her committed (she has already been forced to spend a night in a psychiatric ward following another performance in Paris) but after a lengthy negotiation decided to bring her into custody.
De Robertis tells artnet News that the police phoned for an ambulance and pressured her to leave with the doctors, which she refused. The artist, who is best known for her nude performances at museums including the Musée d’Orsay and the Louvre, has been charged with “sexual exhibitionism” after she stood in the famous grotto at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, hands clasped as if in prayer, wearing nothing but a blue veil on her head on Saturday, September 1.īystanders seeing the artist at the shrine quickly intervened to cover her up, and the police were called. The performance artist Deborah de Robertis has defended her feminist statement of standing nude beneath the statue of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in France, upsetting pilgrims and outraging the shrine’s Catholic authorities.
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