AIBU to think woman's spread legs on gates in Festival Park Glasgow is disturbing?

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AIBU to think that installing a woman's spread legs on gates in Festival Park Glasgow is disturbing? "the gate of Assumption"

Presumably approved by Glasgow City Council. Someone on twitter says they've done a Freedom of Information request
twitter.com/lorcaat/status/1426981748894797831

Ltd Ink Corporations ‘Gateway to Govan-The Safari of Sorts, Is a series of £100 micro commissions, focused on site specific contemporary artworks. Extending beyond the parameters of our Govan headquarters, this interactive art-safari begins on the facade of our warehouse and extends to the revitalised Clyde waterfront. The walk features works by a collection of artists
ltdinkcorporation.com/Gateway-to-Govan-The-Safari-of-Sorts

midgemagneto - no, because spread legs are not usually associated with men. So it would be challenging social assumptions, making you think about what it meant in this context - doing what good public art does.

That’s fucking horrible

Assumption? What are we assuming from that? Very poor taste and pretty offensive, especially if women have been assaulted there.

Horrible and offensive.

Art?

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Really blatant & offensive. Also deeply embarrassing what an 'artust' and local gvmnt consider appropriate for entrance to a public park frequented by children and teens.
Both my young girls would instantly be ashamed and mortified by it.
Just cringey. Even if it does get removed, what does it say about those who judged it to be appropriate - who have power in other elements of local society - and the dismal state of the (lack of) respect for girls and women generally?
Just disgusting.

I hope there is a physical protest.

That wants a lovely big knitted pair of pants adding.....any local yarnbombers?

Brilliant, Laurie!

2014: The original art is from 2014 rakelmcmahon.info/Red-Direction

2021: People decided to install the spread legs on gates

So the gates installation is pretty inline e with her original vision of things being out of context

Commented on the post. Horrible as a woman was also raped there.

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Spray paint is cheap and widely available.

bestplans I seriously doubt that all the locals will be in favour and all the "newcomers" will be looking for things to be offended by but it's easy to pick on incomers I guess. Glad I didn't experience that attitude much when I moved to Glasgow - I was still allowed to use my own brain and have an opinion on things despite not being from there.

This actually makes me feel sick. There seems to be an undercurrent of misogyny slowly gathering pace in society. Whether it's a backlash to the #metoo movement I don't know but I think we are heading towards increasingly dangerous and disturbing times for women.

I get the idea that it's an area used by prostitutes so it makes a kind of social comment on what women get up to there. The thing is, as art, it's a piece of shit. Whoever decided to spend money purchasing that tat should be locked up.

'Festival Park is in in the middle of a unionist area (so the less nice parts of Glasgow) and known to be mostly inhabited by drug dealers and sex workers. - they may well have been intended as a positive comment on the sex workers in the park'

WTAF.

they may well have been intended as a positive comment on the sex workers in the park. Not everyone's taste but not the end of the world

What positive comment would that be then?

Typical of the creeping misogyny that is happening more and more just lately. It’s quite obvious what this ‘art work’ implies. What sort of message does this send to young children? Maybe they just don’t want so many people to use the park because there’s no way I would let my children see that.

That is appalling and especially given the shape of the gates which provide a great big circular hole between the spread legs. I am all for art that challenges and provokes but this is crass misogynistic rubbish. If I lived there I would be round with pliers, scissors and paint and remove/hide as fast as I could.

I would question the intention of who ever made the decision to put it there to be honest

@ChainJane

I get the idea that it's an area used by prostitutes so it makes a kind of social comment on what women get up to there. The thing is, as art, it's a piece of shit. Whoever decided to spend money purchasing that tat should be locked up.

Well, that right there is also a misogynistic ' social comment' as its women's behaviour that is commented on and men's goes unremarked. Women who work as prostitutes aren't doing it by themselves are they? So why is all the 'social comment' on what ' women get up to there?' Whilst what the 'men get up to there' is unremarked? Fucking sexist shit. Things like this make me think that all the progress women have made is just so shallow. T he actual underlying attitudes to women never really changed, did they?

I would be furious if I was the artist. The original series, together and displayed as intended is interesting and engaging. This is not only crass and potentially offensive but also makes her artwork look shit. Goes to show that so much art is about context and perception.

Hope it gets taken down.

A woman was raped that park in 2018.“

Unbelievable. So wtf thought this was appropriate?

Anyone got some spare sheets and cable ties ?

I hope it gets absolutely covered in a sea of white, purple and green ribbons so it's not visible anymore. I don't believe that would be vandalism - it would be art.

Tasteless and inappropriate

Surprised, though, that nobody's mentioned they only paid £100 for it (though 100 pence would be too much). Round here, the idiot council only have to hear the word "art" for funding to be lavished on whatever rubbish some talentless fool's "created"