Sardinia, artist creates huge VAGINA writing in a field

In Sardinia , a huge writing “VAGINA” has appeared in a field near San Gavino Monreale (province of South Sardinia). It is an intervention by an anonymous artist who calls himself "AMADAMA" and claims that the writing is a work of art (titled Unknown). AMADAMA’s intent is to focus attention on a word, used moreover in more than 50 languages around the world, that would be considered taboo. “Even women,” says the artist, “struggle to use the word and choose synonyms, pet names, delicate or colorful expressions, escaping from a collective embarrassment that society has created over the years and has never abandoned.” A provocation, then, intended to challenge the viewer.

The field, the artist makes known, becomes part of the work, a place at the attention of the art world. The writing aims at a “valorization of the generating force of the uncultivated land. The farmland harassed by drought caused by the neglect of Italian and European water networks raises a message to the maternal right of the earth that asks for the possibility to fulfill its natural role. Synecdotally, the field stands to the earth as the vagina stands to the mother, creating a cry to heaven of mother earth, trampled, metaphorically and otherwise, by man.” AMADAMA thus wants to emphasize and confirm as a central element of the work a universal word, characterized by making itself the bearer of the demands of a simple feminism foreign to communicative rhetoric.

“The break with the past, taking away the sacredness of the furrow in the ground and making sacred no longer the medium, but the semantic and metaphorical content,” the artist concludes, “breaks all seriousness that the art world boasts as an entrenched and exclusive medium.” AMADAMA also wants to play with the environment of contemporary art and the need to frame each work by showing the contrast between formal simplicity and power of content, launching an instigation to the viewer with the same synthetic power as a newspaper front page. Finally, the work is destined to fade in time. Time, rains, and wind consume it, creating a work alien to institutional circuits.

Sardinia, artist creates huge VAGINA writing in a field

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