2017 Pigment print on cotton voile, wood structure, artist book. The work is part of the Malmö Art Museum collection.
—Men’s Fight, Faggot Fight, Class Fight.
During their second (and final) year political disagreements emerged within Röda Bögar (Red Faggots), a Swedish independent branch of the leftist Gay Liberation Front active during the late 70s. The arguments between the two fractions, the feminists and the revolutionaries, were connected to a banner stating “Manskamp, Bögkamp, Klasskamp (Men’s Fight, Faggot Fight, Class Fight)”. The words themselves did not trigger the rupture; instead it was the use of the color pink that led up to the organizations disintegration. Pink Banner/Red Faggots consists of two parts, the banner Gradient and the artist book A Year of Dissonance, that highlights the moment where a political agenda was suspended seemingly just about a question of aesthetics and the connotations of a color.
Installation view, Legitimate Rehearsals, D21 Kunstraum, 2017.Front: A Year of Dissonance, artist book . Back: Gradient (detail). A Year of Dissonance, artist book, (detail).Gradient (detail) pigment print on cotton voile.