The prize for 2021’s most controversial public sculpture might have already been claimed by a newly installed 110 foot high concrete crimson vulva in Brazil.

This has sparked fierce online debate for various reasons.

Recessed onto a hillside within a sculpture park in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, Diva, by the Brazilian artist Juliana Notari, intends to question the “problematisation of gender”.

She also wishes to change perspectives on human relationships that create an “unequal and catastrophic world”.

She adds that these issues are “increasingly urgent”, referring to the country’s political climate under the leadership of President Jair Bolsonaro.

Following Argentina’s decision to legalise abortion, Bolsonaro expressed sympathies via Twitter for the lives of Argentine children.

She stated that babies are, “now subject to being cut in their mothers’ wombs with state consent” and vowed to never approve abortion in Brazil.

So between the massive anatomical statue and her posts online, she and her work are under heavy fire.

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