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Kissing Coppers
Documentary image — educational archive purposes only
preserved

Kissing Coppers

YEAR
2004
MEDIUM
Spray paint / stencil
LOCATION
Brighton, East Sussex
COUNTRY
UK
[ DESCRIPTION ]

Two uniformed police officers share a passionate kiss, depicted in Banksy's characteristic stencil style.

[ CRITICAL ANALYSIS ]

Created in Brighton, a city with a prominent LGBTQ+ community, the image challenges notions of authority, sexuality, and taboo. The police — symbols of establishment control — are shown in an act of tenderness, simultaneously humanising and subverting them.

[ THEMES ]
LGBTQ+authoritylovesubversion
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