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Based on Duchamp’s installation with the same title, Barbara Fässler delivers an ironic take on the male sexual allusion of the French artist. Though in the installation at the Philadelphia Art Museum, the spectator looks through a little hole in a wooden door between a woman’s thighs, Fässler exhibits a similar point of view of a male body. Her photographic gaze has so fallen on the best piece of greek sculpture in the Louvre…