According to Diego Mattos, in an essay for Revista Amarello, Divisor is a work by Lygia Pape designed for horizontal use and without hierarchy: a 30-square-meter sheet with holes through which anyone could pass their head, creating a collective play without pre-established rules. The interaction of participants generated a spontaneous choreography in which individualities organized themselves into a collective movement, transforming the urban space into a stage for artistic experience.

The work reflects a rejection of exclusive control by the artist and the gallery space, promoting participation, improvisation, and organic creation. Process, concept, playfulness, and sensitivity combine with collective participation to reveal diversity, instability, and the intersection between public and private, consensus and dissent. Created in 1968, a year when Brazil was under a military regime, Divisor engages with the urban and political context of the time, offering a collective experience that transforms space into architecture in motion, highlighting the relationship between art, thought, and political action.