''The Streets'' is a conceptual and performative work of critical and

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Abel Azcona Abel Azcona (born 1 April 1988) is a Spanish artist, specializing in performance art. His work includes installations, sculptures, and video art. He is known as the "'' enfant terrible''" of Spanish contemporary art. His first works dealt with ...

. At the end of 2014 and the early part of 2015, Azcona explored the processual work ''La Calle'' ("the sexual exchange") this time in the Santa Fe locality of Bogota, where he prostituted himself on the streets. In this new work, he explored a change towards the figure of his mother, taking

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and engaging in prostitution. Azcona was inspired by his biological mother, a

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, and sought to empathise with her and with the moment of his own conception. The process continued in the cities of Madrid and Mexico City. The performance emerged, as with the rest of his sex-themed works, as an exercise in empathy with his own

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. It was also a social critique, where the artist explored the limits of his body by repeating patterns of sexual abuse, which occurred in his own childhood and in the life of his mother.

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* * * * * * Performances Male prostitution in the arts Works about prostitution in Mexico Works about prostitution in Colombia Works about prostitution in Spain {{Art-stub

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