A very problematic siren. There Den Store Havfrue (Gran Sirena, Editor’s note) It is a six -meter high statue installed since 2018 in the Dragør fort, the old maritime fortress in Copenhagen, and has caused a lot of ink in recent weeks in Denmark.
A debate, around his own presence, broke out in the Danish press while the Polyken newspaper judges it “ugly and pornographic”, as The Guardian points out. The Great Sirena is a gray statue based on a stone base that represents a naked siren, bust and chest with fish tail.
“Erecting a statue that represents the torrid dream of a man about how a woman should be is probable that she does not promote the acceptance of many women in her own body”, Punisigates Sorine Gotfredsen, priest and journalist for another daily life, Berlingske.
A second movement
However, the latter not only has opponents, starting with its creator, Peter Bech, saying that he does not understand the criticisms and that the controversial size of the chest of his statue is “proportional size” on his scale.
“Should the naked feminine have an academic form and a specific size to appear in public?” He also questions Aminata Cor Thane, editor in chief of debates in Berlingske.
The Danish agency of Palacios and Culture, since last March, intends to eliminate the statue, which would move for the second time in its life. Already in 2006, the latter had been erected next to the Little siren, Another bronze located a few kilometers north of the capital of the Nordic kingdom, in Langelinie Pier.
Then it was lost after 12 years on the shore, under the anger of the inhabitants who classify it as “the false and vulgar meter”.
Source: BFM TV
