Their entrance is a sensation. While the 17th chamber of the Paris court has been waiting for them for more than an hour, and their trial had to begin without them, Piotr Pavlenski, 39, and Alexandra de Taddeo, 32, tumble into the courtroom hand in hand. He is dressed all in black; she wears a long, tight-fitting sequin dress and holds her autobiographical novel, L'amour, against her. Called to the bar, Piotr Pavlenski immediately launched into a long tirade made difficult to understand by his strong Russian accent. It will just be remembered that "today will take place the judgment of [her] 8th event of subject-object art, the pornopolitical event" before the president suspends the hearing in the face of this flood of words, approved by the applause of an audience largely devoted to the cause of the artist.
This Wednesday, the representatives of the prosecutor's office requested six months in prison and six months suspended prison respectively against Piotr Pavlenski and Alexandra...
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