Empathy and Prostitution

Empathy and Prostitution
ArtistAbel Azcona
Year2013
MediumPerformance Art
LocationBogota, Madrid, Houston

Empathy and Prostitution is a conceptual and performative work of critical and biographical content by artist Abel Azcona. Azcona was inspired by his biological mother, a prostitute, and sought to empathise with her and with the moment of his own conception. Azcona offered himself naked to the galleries' visitors on a bed with white sheets, so that they could exchange intimacy or have sexual relations with him.