Art Basel Week Reaches Peak B.S.: Usher Charged His Phone in a Woman's Vagina UPDATED

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Update: We spoke to the artist, Lena Marquise, about her sudden fame and the meaning behind the performance, "Body As Commodity."

If there's any doubt that more redeemable parts of Art Basel Miami Beach week have been overshadowed by random VIPs and juvenile art-world stunting, we present to you the fact that last night Usher plugged his iPhone into a woman's vagina.

This is obviously what we'd call a NSFW post.

Usher, who just so happens to be playing the AAA next week, is in town early because he's an art collector. Collecting art, of course, is a natural side effect of having more money than one knows what to do with.

So yesterday he was at the opening of Select Fair and happened upon the exhibition of New York City's Vector Gallery.

"VECTOR Gallery is The AntiChrist. The AntiChrist is Jesus Christ," proclaims the gallery's Tumblr:

The Official Art Gallery of SATAN. A new conceptual art destination on the Lower East Side, VECTOR Gallery is the most interesting phenomenon in New York. Indeed, VECTOR is the forerunner of Posthuman Art (a term coined by The Devil Himself). It is a sentient space with a palpable energy that has to be experienced firsthand.

On November 8th of 2017 (Independence Night) VECTOR Gallery seceded from the United States, making it the newest (and smallest) independent country in the world.

Granted, none of this seems to makes much sense, but the gallery does warn us that it "has to be experienced firsthand." So, uh, let's give it the benefit of the doubt.

Anyway, as part of the exhibit, a naked woman was allowing iPhones to be "charged" in her vagina, and Usher decided he was down.

And maybe we could use this information to ponder the themes of vaginas being the source of life and our lives now revolving around smartphones.

Or women's bodies being degraded to objects.

Or perhaps, in this particular moment, the idea of male musicians using the bodies of women to empower their own careers or something.

There's probably some sort of meaning behind all of this.

But mostly people will just say, "Usher charged his phone in a vajayjay. LOL!"

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25 comments
M.M.
M.M.

To be honest, it's a gallery form New York, soo their idea.

Sofia Paola Carrasquillo
Sofia Paola Carrasquillo

This is over exaggerating… the phone was not on her vag.. it simply a naked woman with his phone charging on her lap. Not that serious..

Jeffrey Knight
Jeffrey Knight

This woman is NOT thinking about the future. Will she be able to tell her future children or grandchildren what she once did for a living?

Plaza13
Plaza13

Keep it classy Miami...

David Ames
David Ames

It's also doubles as a roaming hotspot... If you know what I mean.

Lovely Leslie
Lovely Leslie

Sigh x 2 . I forgot to tell you..Barry Heigh told me earlier

Arie Bruk
Arie Bruk

Are u kidding me Rohama Bruk

allyk
allyk

so what happens if you stick your dick in there ?

fvckartxxx
fvckartxxx

well said and beautifully written but please edit to include the performance artist's name: Lena Marquise



Dennis Cameron
Dennis Cameron

Boyan Chakalov i think Sam Perez phone got lost here

Hugo Romero
Hugo Romero

I'm gonna need more info... Does this woman have a battery pack in there or something?

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