Medusa with the Head of Perseus
In the 1500s, Benvenuto Cellini made a sculpture called Perseus with the Head of Medusa. In that sculpture, a nearly naked Perseus holds up Medusa's head.  Garbati wanted to make that statue in reverse.  Garbati did not think he was making feminist art.  He only want to "flip the script" of the story of Perseus and Medusa.  He only wanted to show the sculpture the opposite way.