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The sculpture's name is from the native Peruvian Quechuan language. According to de la Jara, the word chacán means "place where the action of water has tunneled through a large rock or a mountain", or alternatively "lovemaking". Pi is both a Greek character and a mathematical symbol, π, that looks similar to a door or a vulva.It is placed at the end of the Weg der Künste (Street of the Arts) facing the entrances of the university's Anatomy, Microbiology and Virology buildings. This location, in a place dedicated to the study and healing of the human body, inspired the artist to devise a way "to celebrate the body." De la Jara comments:Hospitals are places where we are faced, like in a Shakespearean drama, with the big issues of men's lives brought to their most ardent limits. I thus asked myself: How to make a piece that is not an escape from this reality, but rather an extension, an enlargement of this same reality? The answer came on its own. In a place where the daily struggles and reconciliations are against Thanatos [death], I had to erect a monument to Eros [love/life].
De la Jara says that he intended the work to be tactile and able to be appreciated even by the blind, through the use of different textures and forms: "The principal part of the work isn't outside." He describes it as "participatory art" and suggests that "it should be entered."
Eros Quechuan language Thanatos vulva Pi Peruvian