The 30-year-old South African artist Reshma Chhiba 's vagina installation at disused apartheid-era women's jail on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg has had a mixed reception since its unveiling in August. Upon entry through the thick, black acrylic wool opening - to mimic pubic hair - visitors are greeted by screams and laughter, which emit from the red velvet padded womb. "It's a screaming vagina within a space that once contained women and stifled women," Reshma Chhiba explains. "It's revolting against this space... mocking this space, by laughing at it."
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