Performance, video installation, 2019.


Hustler is a performance in which the artist took on the role of a "webcam girl" and performed in front of a web camera in one of the popular pornographic online video chatrooms intended for users, who are looking for various sexual pleasures and are willing to pay for them. This is an online platform where women perform live striptease, masturbate, use sex toys and interact with viewers. Unlike them, the artist earned money by exercising in front of the web camera, chatting with online viewers and making drawings by request. Her artistic intervention in the porn industry not only touches on the construction and aesthetics of media images but by raising the question of artists' real chances of survival above all refers to the currently worsening social inequality, unemployment and precarity. Visitors to the gallery were invited to participate in the action during the performance via their smartphones.

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