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Deborah De Robertis

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Deborah De Robertis

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A Luxembourgish performance artist who stages unauthorised interventions in front of canonical artworks — most famously exposing herself before Courbet's 'The Origin of the World' at the Musée d'Orsay and beneath the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. Her work turns the museum into a stage and the viewer's gaze back on itself, and has repeatedly drawn police complaints, arrests, and charges of sexual exhibitionism — making her a lightning rod in debates over the female body, censorship, and who is permitted to act inside the museum.