Around the turn of the year, the 33-meter-high, 16-meter-wide and 6-meter-deep vagina was completed in the Usina de arte art park in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco.

The work with the sculpture has taken just over eleven months and twenty people were involved in getting the artwork in place.

The artist Juliana Notari writes on Facebook that the artwork is intended to:

"... question the relationship between nature and culture in our fallocentric and anthropocentric western society" and create a discussion about "problematization of gender".

The art is discussed on social media

The post currently has over 14,000 shares and 26,000 comments.

Some praise the artwork and what the Notary wants to achieve, others are not as positive.

Regardless of whether those who comment think that it can be counted as art or not, the work is discussed in long posts in several different languages.

And problematization of gender is one of the topics discussed.

But this is not the first vulva sculpture that aroused emotions.

In 2015, the vulva sculpture of Anish Kapoor at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris was vandalized.