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May 21st, 2017 – Controversial conceptual artist Milo Moire, known for turning more than a few heads with her sexuality-themed artwork, was arrested for one of her public exhibitions. During a performance last year in London’s Trafalgar Square, the provocateur invited strangers to touch her genitals or breasts concealed behind a mirrored box worn over her body.

The project is called “Mirror Box,” and each person who chooses to interact with the personal installation gets to do so for only 30 seconds.

“I am standing here today for women’s rights and sexual self-determination,” Moire shouted into a megaphone during her first ‘Mirror Box’ performance. “Women have a sexuality, just like men have one. However, women decide for themselves when and how they want to be touched, and when they don’t.”

Artist Arrested For Performance Piece Allowing Strangers To Touch Her Breasts And Genitals 

The Spanish Slovak has developed a reputation for creating sometimes scandalous art pieces that normally involve her being either partially or completely nude in public. After staging exhibitions at internationally renowned art fair, Art Basel, and being arrested for taking naked selfies in front of the Eiffel Tower, the Dusseldorf-based, Swiss-born Moire continues to blur the lines between art, pornography and the sexual mores of the day. When asked about the utility of allowing random men and women to touch her genitals in public, Moire explained in a statement:

“The audience’s reflection on the mirrored box simultaneously becomes a visual metaphor for the role reversal from voyeur to the object of view: a constant play of inversions analogous to our roles in the digital world.”

Artist Arrested For Performance Piece Allowing Strangers To Touch Her Breasts And Genitals

Artist Arrested For Performance Piece Allowing Strangers To Touch Her Breasts And Genitals

Much of Moire’s work explores the concepts of consent, women’s rights and sexual equality. But her artistic output has been met by harsh criticism. One critic for The Independent called a piece wherein the artist expelled paint-filled acrylic eggs onto a blank canvas “the latest desperate effort to shock in the name of art.” Since 2007, Moire has been nude in all her public performances including her most recent arrest in London. The artist rebuffs any attempt to dismiss her work as a stunt saying on her website:

“The inward importance of my own nudity is of far greater force than the importance of the visible nudity in itself.”

The Metropolitan Police were not impressed by Moire’s artistic expression, and she was charged with “indecency” and fined for her trouble. This was not the first time a female artist was punished for challenging the conventional wisdom on public exposure. Artist Valie Export’s Touch Cinema performance in 1968 saw Export inviting men and women on the street in Vienna to touch her breasts through a Styrofoam box.

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69 thoughts on “Artist Arrested For Performance Piece Allowing Strangers To Touch Her Breasts And Genitals”

  22. I think this is totally disgusting, that I was not informed that there was a woman whom I could touch her tits and fanny.
    Where was sky news, where was the BBC?
    I demand that I get access to this sort of news.

  27. I can’t really sympathise for her. It’s like that artist in Germany that found a way to paint with her groinage on stilts while naked – there isn’t a fine line between artist and adult entertainer, there is a mountain.

    Otherwise, shooting ping pong balls can opt as a recognised sport.

  31. This “artist” is trying to teach people about consent.
    With her boyfriend and the cops there to protect her.
    I think it’s stupid as shit and it doesn’t teach about consent at all. I think it’s just someone into being degraded, but you can’t see inside people’s heads so maybe it really is her trying to spread awareness idk

  33. How many people who have “touched her” will go home and litetally instead of figuritivly think about what they have done
    ?Some reflection or symbolism here. As strange as that seems isnt that some sort of art form? It makes you reflect on yourself by the end of the day. Exibitionist, artist, humanitarian whats in your head?

  36. Lol, I agree that it is stupid. But truthfully she’s not exposing herself, she’s not selling herself, she’s not letting underage people touch her, and she is not having sexual intercourse of any form. WTF are they charging her with?

  37. She is just an exhibitionist getting her kicks from people fondling her in public. Her boyfriend is probably a voyeur and gets his kicks from watching strangers fondle his girlfriend as well. I really could care less what they do as long as they are truthful about it and not hide it under the guise of art.

  38. Modern Pop Culture if you want to call it Culture
    Take a dump on a piece cardboard, spray it with a coat or ten of lacquer
    Cover it with a nice sealed bell jar
    Call it decadence of Turd
    Voila modern art
    Same fucked up principle applies here
    They polished porn and called it art
    Not art, not culture, just crap

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