Artist faces child-porn charges
Date June 4, 2013 - 12:49PM
Aisha Dow
Artist Paul Yore whose work in the exhibition 'Everything is F---ed' was seized by police at the Linden Gallery in St Kilda on Saturday. Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui
Melbourne artist Paul Yore is likely to be charged with producing child pornography following the seizure of several of his art works.
Detectives raided the Linden Centre for Contemporary Art on Saturday and removed a number of images from Yore's installation, which allegedly depicted sexual acts with children's faces superimposed on them.
A Victoria Police media spokeswoman said a 25-year-old Fitzroy man was interviewed by detectives from the St Kilda Crime Investigation Unit on Monday before being released pending a court summons.
She said the man was likely to be charged with producing and possessing child pornography.
When contacted today, Yore said that he was under legal advice not to speak with the media.
"I'm sorry, I just really can't comment on anything at all," he said.
However on Saturday Yore described the police seizure as "completely absurd".
"The work, I feel, has been taken completely out of context because they're very small fragments of a collage of a much larger work that constitutes literally thousands of different objects I've found in society - basically junk I've been collecting,'' he said.
Yore’s installation Everything’s F---ed was part of a larger exhibition featuring seven other artists and was a tribute to legendary Australian artist Mike Brown.
The gallery was closed after Saturday’s raid and on Monday Linden Board of Management chairperson Sue Foley said they were unable to make any comment as there was an ongoing police investigation.
The raid follows a complaint made to police.
