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A 33-meter vagina-shaped installation in a park in Pernambuco is arousing the ire of “bolsonaristas,” in confrontation with admirers of left-wing art in Brazil.
“Diva” is the name of the red sculpture 33 meters long, 16 meters wide and six meters deep by Juliana Notari, as part of an artistic residency for the Aloísio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art (MAMAM) and the Usina de Art. .
In this work, the Brazilian artist tries to problematize gender issues and question the relationship between nature and culture in Western society that she refers to as phallocentric and anthropocentric.
“Today, these issues have become increasingly urgent. After all, it will be changing the perspective of our relationship between humans and between humans and non-humans, which will allow us to live longer on this planet and in a less unequal and catastrophic society. “adds Juliana Notari in a presentation note on her Facebook account.
The December 31 post went viral, generating more than 28,000 reactions (14,000 likes and hearts) and 25,000 comments on Facebook alone, many of them offensive. The discussion also spread to other social networks.
Notari’s note, referring to Bolsonaro’s growing climate of intolerance in Brazil, drew ire from critics, many of them supporters of the Brazilian president, who flooded the artist’s page with furious and often obscene reactions to her. art. Bolsonaro’s political guru, Olavo de Carvalho, also responded with a rude tweet.
On the contrary, many responded positively to the installation of Notari. “This work gives a lot to think about,” wrote cartoonist Laerte Coutinho. “Reactions to work are a mirror [da sociedade], a success ”, said in another tweet Kleber Mendonça Filho, a filmmaker from Pernambuco, who praised Notari for responding to such a conservative moment in Brazilian history, with a giant vagina.
“These attacks only demonstrate the machismo, prejudice and misogyny that has always existed in Western society. An ancestral patriarchy. When a female symbol, the vulva, is exposed, an image that goes beyond sex because it has a sacred dimension, generates fear and fascination ”, comments Juliana Notari, mentioned by the Brazilian media. He considers that “art is fulfilling its function, of moving these tectonic plates”.
“Diva” was sculpted in the Usina de Arte botanical art park, in Água Preta, in the municipality of Zona da Mata Sul, in Pernambuco.
The work took eleven months to build by hand, so that its reliefs could be sculpted with the precision that an excavator would not allow. He had the help of more than 40 hands. With an open wound on the ground, the vulva was covered with reinforced concrete and resin.
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