Hon - en katedral
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Hon - en katedral (1966, She - a Cathedral) [1] [2]was an mixed-material assemblage artwork exhibited at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden from June 4 to September 9, 1966. The work was a collaboration of French artists Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely and Finnish artist Per Olov Ultvedt. Over 100,000 people walked into the museum through an opening in the vagina of a six-ton, 25-26-metre-long, 10-metre-broad and six-meter-high polyester pregnant female figure, named hon (the swedish pronoun, 'she'). The interior featured several rooms:
- "Once inside this three-story building the visitor encountered a Coca-Cola bar, planetarium, lookout tower, slide, tunnel of love, several “Fake Paintings” in an art gallery, a number of automatic vendors for various kinds of goods, service personnel, a small plant for the production of broken glass, a public telephone, a gold-fish pond, a movie theatre showing a soundless Greta Garbo movie, and much, much more."[3]
The most famous of her many nanas, it was a critical sensation. A reproduction of the sculpture was later used in the film Femina ridens[4], which added the effect of vagina dentata.
