Should posting the image below lead to three years of jail time and $100,000 in fines?
Unfortunately, that’s what the French postcard artist Philippe Pissier faces in “obscenity” charges for sending the piece above in the mail as part of a mail art exhibition entitled “Erotic Moments” that was curated by Mark Falkant. Here’s Philippe’s description of the situation translated from French: ” As you probably know, I am currently enmeshed in a legal situation where I am at risk of three years of jail time and a fine of 75,000 euros for a misunderstood creative project. To summarize, in May or June 2008 I sent four postcards intended for an exposure of Mail Art entitled “Erotic Moments” curated by Mr Mark Falkant (Sodener Str. 20 / 65779 Kelkheim / Allemagne). The artworks are collages made from postcards of the pastoral village of Castelnau-Montratier (in Southern France), and old photographs of a girlfriend, taken around 1991-92, with two to three clothespins on her nipples. I sent them, without adding them in an envelope, as is the norm, for purists of “postal art”. After
