The issue of morality in the partial presentation of artworks on social media raises significant concerns related to censorship, the visibility of artists, and the public reception of artworks.
Arbitrariness
Censorship on social media, as highlighted by the Académie des beaux-arts, often occurs arbitrarily, without distinguishing artworks from other content, thereby hindering the promotion of art on these platforms.
Last summer, Miriam Cahn‘s painting exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris was pornographied by showing only a part of it on social media. This practice ignores the spatial context of the painting and its exhibition setting, reducing the fragment to the whole artwork.
This situation highlights a tension between platform policies and the freedom to disseminate art, calling for a reflection on ways to protect this freedom, and perhaps a skepticism towards contemporary art.
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