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Heroes Rise // Monsters Fall - by Paulos - Myth Pilot

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Invocation "Medusa with the Head of Perseus" is a statue created by sculptor Luciano Garbati depicting a nude and triumphant Medusa bearing the severed head of Perseus. Originally created in 2008 as a direct response to Cellini's Perseus in Florence, photos of the work, which inverts the original Greek myth, circulated widely on social media in 2018 after the Argentine Senate rejected a bill to legalize abortion in that country. At the time, the striking image of Medusa with the head of her attacker seemed to express the same kind of rage that animated the #MeToo movement, and, in the words of the artist, the work “took on a life of its own.”

Heroes Rise // Monsters Fall Paulos Mar 01, 2022 212 48 37 Share Invocation 1 "Medusa with the Head of Perseus" is a statue created by sculptor Luciano Garbati depicting a nude and triumphant Medusa bearing the severed head of Perseus. Originally created in 2008 as a direct response to Cellini's Perseus in Florence, photos of the work, which inverts the original Greek myth, circulated widely on social media in 2018 after the Argentine Senate rejected a bill to legalize abortion in that country. At the time, the striking image of Medusa with the head of her attacker seemed to express the same k

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