Benidorm Fest: Marina Salazar, the Catalan designer who devised Rigoberta Bandini's giant breast as a Greek myth

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"Buah, my Instagram is full of people placing orders and sending messages."

Who answers the other end of the phone is

(Barcelona, ​​1990), the mind behind the giant boob in the shape of a globe that Rigoberta Bandini has planted in the center of the Benidorm Fest stage and with which she is going around Spain .

But the idea is not new,

when this Catalan web designer, with studies at Ubic Estudio, decided that the female breast was going to become the center of the universe.

She maybe she didn't get it (or she did), but at least she turned it into her icon to decorate sheets and bags.

"The idea comes from the Greek myth in which a goddess breastfeeds her baby and bites his nipple causing milk to sprout and from there comes the name of the Milky Way", comments this freelance designer focused on her artistic project @noquedatinte.

Specifically,

, wife of Zeus, and hence the founding myth of our galaxy that now threatens to take Eurovision.

Because a few months ago Marina received a call from Joan Ros, a classmate in her graphic design studies and creator of Rigoberta Bandini's styling, with an offer: she had to create a giant boob to put her in the center of the Benidorm stage. Fest.

"Look, I've done boobs of many sizes, but I've never done one as big as the one they asked me for."

That's where the point of how to make it came, the designer was clear that the production had to be in Benidorm to avoid transportation and the only thing missing was the material.

-omitting the part of burning it, yes-.

"She was growing little by little like our child," she says.

Until on Thursday it came true and she appeared in the middle of the stage while Rigoberta bellowed "I don't know why our boobs are so scary" dressed only in a flesh-colored jumpsuit.

"

. I swear that day I went to bed being a normal person and I woke up with this madness, "he explains .

And now, if there is a trip to Eurovision, what?

"We have already discussed it, something will have to be done and there will be surprises for sure because we can also adapt it even bigger".

The Yola Berrocal version for which this Catalan woman has already started working, who for months has kept the secret of her design and who

, the Barcelona version of the Rastro.

"That's where I find completely disused pieces, I sponsor objects and then give them a critical, vindictive or humorous touch.

"acknowledges Marina Salazar, also a professor at the BAU university center for arts and design in Barcelona.

"Well, I'm going to keep answering messages and placing orders that in the end I'm going to have to hire a factory with all the ones I have," he says goodbye on the other end of the phone.

Rigoberta, the one you have with the tit.

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