British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor has stoked a fresh controversy in France by describing one of his installations as a “queen’s vagina”. However, the artist did not specify the queen’s name. The artwork is stationed in the safety grounds of the Palace of Versailles. Titled Dirty Corner, it is 80 m long (200 ft) and 10 m (33 ft) high depicting a funnel in the form of an orifice. The high steel-and-rock abstract sculpture is also being dubbed as ‘sexist’.
British daily The Guardian’s Michele Hanson criticized Anish for being redundant and sexist. “We’ve had vagina dinner plates, vagina flowers, vagina canoes and even an “origin of the world” vagina. Now here comes a fellow who still thinks vaginas are big “dirty”, dark, wide open holes. He is not alone. A male critic rates his sculptures for “sensual deliciousness”. Olga, an artist and female critic, thinks this one is more like the entrance to a storage unit. She is right. Oh dear. Is this how some men still see women? As dirty storage units? And I thought feminism had got somewhere. We still have a million miles to go,” the article read in The Guardian reads.
