Performance artist Deborah de Robertis tags Courbet's 'L'Origine du monde' with 'Me Too' at Centre Pompidou-Metz

Deborah de Robertis, a French-Luxembourgish performance artist, orchestrated an intervention at the Centre Pompidou-Metz last Monday. Two women inscribed the words 'Me Too' on the protective glass covering Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting L'Origine du monde. This act was part of de Robertis's performance work titled Don't Separate the Woman from the Artist. The painting is on loan from the Musée d'Orsay for the exhibition Lacan, the Exhibition. Four additional artworks were marked during the incident. Anette Messager's 1991 piece I Think Before I Suck was stolen, with de Robertis claiming possession via her Instagram. In a statement, de Robertis explained the action aims to highlight a 'misogynistic divide' in the art world. She called on women, intersex, trans, non-binary, and underrepresented individuals in the art community to express themselves boldly.