LONDON — Babestation is sponsoring the launch of Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky’s new art show at a/political, a new exhibition space in the U.K.
a/political opened to the public today with “Pornopolitics and other Precedents” by Paris-based Pavlensky, who has courted controversy with his work that often involves self-mutilation.
The partnership “linking pornography and fine art examines the artists right to artistic freedom as he exhibits the works for the first time,” a rep said.
According to the Babestation rep, “Pavlensky has been censored and oppressed by authorities in Russia, and then in France, so he decided to hold his exhibition in London.”
Pavlensky said, “The whole history of art is the history of the collision between artists and power.”
Babestation’s sponsorship, the rep added, also serves to highlight the current, ongoing U.K. debate about the role and scope of adult-oriented material in society.
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