The vagina dialogues: 33-metre artwork draws far right's ire in Brazil

[AMart]

I thought gender was a social construct? Like Race was a social construct 30 years ago. Hey lets create a problematisation because we have too much time on our hands. Marx should have picked cotton.

In a Facebook post, Notari said the scarlet hillside vulva was intended to “question the relationship between nature and culture in our phallocentric and anthropocentric western society” and provoke debate over the “problematisation of gender”.

 

[Orangecat]

That's not a vagina, it's a giant, bloody ax wound on a hill.

 

[Bleipriester]

That's not a vagina, it's a giant, bloody ax wound on a hill.
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[petro]

If anyone had a vagina that looked like that they should see a doctor.

I was expecting something more cameltoe-ish, that looks like the pit to Hell itself.

 

[JoeMoma]

People seem to get vagina confused with vulva. The vulva is on the outside. The vagina is the canal on the inside.

Are you an anatomy expert?

I don't consider myself an anatomy expert, but I did earn an A in my biology classes, and I know how to use Google.

If you use a google to see the vulva, something is wrong with you. Nature was smart enough to hide it with hairs, but hairs are also ugly there. It is basically a lottery that I don´t want to play. The chance to get something beautiful is quite low.

Calm down dude....who put that stick up your ass that causes you to be so nasty to everyone?

I thought I better be nasty on the internet than go out and hunt down fucking people. But you are right. That is not fair. Sorry for that.

PEACE!
Go easy on the fucking people too. That's how babies are made. PEACE!

 

[JoeMoma]

I thought gender was a social construct? Like Race was a social construct 30 years ago. Hey lets create a problematisation because we have too much time on our hands. Marx should have picked cotton.

In a Facebook post, Notari said the scarlet hillside vulva was intended to “question the relationship between nature and culture in our phallocentric and anthropocentric western society” and provoke debate over the “problematisation of gender”.

The sculpture may be of a transsexual pussy.

 

[BULLDOG]

Smells like dead catfish. Looks like rotten tomatoes.

 

[JoeMoma]

Smells like dead catfish. Looks like rotten tomatoes.

You can smell via the internet? How cool.....unless you are smelling dead catfish.

 

[Bleipriester]

People seem to get vagina confused with vulva. The vulva is on the outside. The vagina is the canal on the inside.

Are you an anatomy expert?

I don't consider myself an anatomy expert, but I did earn an A in my biology classes, and I know how to use Google.

If you use a google to see the vulva, something is wrong with you. Nature was smart enough to hide it with hairs, but hairs are also ugly there. It is basically a lottery that I don´t want to play. The chance to get something beautiful is quite low.

Calm down dude....who put that stick up your ass that causes you to be so nasty to everyone?

I thought I better be nasty on the internet than go out and hunt down fucking people. But you are right. That is not fair. Sorry for that.

PEACE!
Go easy on the fucking people too. That's how babies are made. PEACE!

That was meant in another context. I don´t care what they do at home. I only care for what they do to me. For example we have a new fucking shit in the house that is jumping and stamping all day, all night. He came just from the mad house, where he was expelled from. I just feel the wish to remove it, too.

 

[jackflash]

A 33-metre reinforced concrete vagina has sparked a Bolsonarian backlash in Brazil, with supporters of the country’s far-right president clashing with leftwing art admirers over the installation.

The handmade sculpture, entitled Diva, was unveiled by visual artist Juliana Notari on Saturday at a rural art park on the grounds of a former sugar mill in Pernambuco, one of Brazil’s most culturally vibrant states.

In a Facebook post, Notari said the scarlet hillside vulva was intended to “question the relationship between nature and culture in our phallocentric and anthropocentric western society” and provoke debate over the “problematisation of gender”.

“Nowadays these issues have become increasingly urgent,” the artist added in what appeared partly to be a reference to the increasingly intolerant climate in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil.

The vagina dialogues: 33-metre artwork draws far right's ire in Brazil

Juliana Notari’s hillside sculpture sparks clash between Bolsonaro-supporting right and leftwing cultural community

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I'm a feminist. At no point in my life have I ever, ever, ever thought that a vagina sculpture on a lawn, or as a hat, was something important or was really art. Yanno.......at least with Georgia O’Keeffe, it was a question of whether it was a vagina or a flower. Not so much here. That is a vagina on the lawn.

A 33 meter set of heavy hangers(gotta have the BIG pancakes on 'em) would have had a LOT more effect than a hole in the ground!

 

[JoeMoma]

Wonder if a giant penis sculpture on a nearby plot is being planed.

 

[AMart]

Wonder if a giant penis sculpture on a nearby plot is being planed.

That would be toxic masculinity.

 

[Rigby5]

Not offensive, but not exactly beautiful either.
Too flat and no details.

 

[Pogo]

Wonder if a giant penis sculpture on a nearby plot is being planed.

That's what one of the tweets referred to in the OP said.

 

[Lysistrata]

Having to explain that visual art is symbolic is so tedious.

There are enough phallic symbols around, anyway, so why the fuss? Moreover, unless you were a C-section, this represents where you came from.

 

[Disir]

I'm not sure why one would think anyone needed an "explanation" about representation. It isn't new in the States.

 

[mdk]

I picture a cave on an alien world that holds the metals or crystals I need to fix my crashed ship.

 

[justinacolmena]

I'm a feminist. At no point in my life have I ever, ever, ever thought that a vagina sculpture on a lawn, or as a hat, was something important or was really art.

You contradict yourself. That is what feminists do, feel, and speak. Why would you think any differently?