DIVA Land Art – A Vagina Sculpture

Juliana Notari, a visual artist in Brazil creates a 33-Metre Vagina Sculpture

Located at Usina Santa Terezinha, in Água Preta, a municipality in the Zona da Mata Sul of Pernambuco.

Juliana Notari
December 31,2020

“Amid so many rocks in the middle of this dystopian year, I finally finish the year with Diva ready!! It was a long process, almost 11 months of a lot of persistence, coexistence and learning.
Diva after all is a big hand made sculpture. As Roberto demonstrated, the engineer responsible for the work (and who puts his hand in the mass! ), could not use excavator, because she would not allow to accurately carve the reliefs she needed. So it was over 40 hands to make Diva rise, over twenty men working in a heroin effort under the sun to pin, amid a lot of music and joke.
Diva is a Land Art, a massive vulva / wound excavation measuring 33 meters high, by 16 meters wide and 6 meters deep, covered by armed concrete and resin.
In ′′ Diva “, I use art to dialogue with issues that refer to gender issues from a female perspective combined with a cosmopocentric and anthropocentric western society. Currently these issues have become increasingly urgent. After all, it is by changing perspective of our relationship between humans and humans and nonhuman, that will allow us to live longer on that planet and in a less unequal and catastrophic society.
All I can do is thank for this long and rich process. Thank you Bruna Simões Pessoa de Queiroz, Ricardo Pessôa Filho, C Mabel Medeiros and Bárbara Maranhao for believing and betting on the project boldness.
I thank Roberto Gatis for the professionalism, patience and sensitivity (which contradicts the fame of engineers) and all the men who worked on the work: Felipe, Ricardo, Bergue, Brother Elias, Lilo, Neither, Lorinho, Stud, Node, Jau, Fernando , Powder, Renildo, Nando, Pigeon, brother Telmo’s son and those who don’t remember the name now.
Long live the Art Power Plant, this beautiful project coordinated by Bruna and Ricardo that has revived the historic and cultural landscape at this point in the Mata Sul Pernambucana.
PS: Diva is the fruit of my artistic residence in the Power Plant and a covenant of the Art Power Plant and the Museum of Modern Art Aloisio Magalh ãeses (MAMAMAM).”

Juliana Notari @ Facebook


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DIVA Land Art - A Vagina Sculpture
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Jan 3, 2021, Culturonauta, www.youtube.com, License: Standard YouTube License

A 33 meter vulva


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Jan 6, 2021, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, www.youtube.com, License: Standard YouTube License

Website: juliananotari.com

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