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Sexcam Performers Reenact Classical Works of Art


March 6, 2013 | Marina Galperina

“Will you pose for me?” F.A.T. artists Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia ask, directing the adult performers, adjusting them until they get the desired pose on their live xxx webcam feed until they pose in hommage of Egon Schiele, Modigliani, Botticelli…

What if adult performers—already mediated sex objects—struck ‘classic’ poses?

Watch Webcam Venus [NSFW] in action above.

The work brilliantly accentuates and blurs the line between pornography and fine art, “lowbrow” internet phenomena and culture of the elite, erotic fantasy then and erotic fantasy now.

Hardcore is hardcore, but let’s not pretend that Egon Schiele never told his models, “bend over and touch yourself.”