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Posted: 2016-09-26T15:12:07Z | Updated: 2016-09-26T15:12:07Z

Beginning Sept. 27, 2016, the Tate Britain will exhibit the work of the four artists shortlisted for this years Turner Prize , the contentious award presented each year to a British visual artist under the age of 50. (Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin are among those famously nominated in the past.)

This years Turner Prize show, featuring artists Michael Dean , Anthea Hamilton , Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde, is notable primarily because the majority of featured artists are women artists . Also, though, because theres a giant butt on view.

The hefty derrire is part of a sculpture titled Project for a Door by Anthea Hamilton, whose work often melds pop culture and art history with a dirty sense of humor. Hamiltons work takes the shape of a 30-foot rump, protruding from a large brick wall, with two giant hands spreading the cheeks for all to see. The piece is inspired by Italian artist and designer Gaetano Pesce s 1972 proposal for a doorway into a Manhattan apartment building, that, shockingly, was never realized.