Dick-pics, svartsjuka män och osmakliga konstverk: En analys av hur offentlig konst debatteras

Sammanfattning: This essay will discuss how public art is debated in Swedish newspapers. Selected artworks for this study are the mural painting Fuck the world by Carolina Falkholt; the installation Du gamla, du fria by Mattias Norström; and Peter Lindes statue of Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The artworks have been debated both by members of the public and politicians and the debates actualize questions about gender and nation. This essay asks if the debates reproduce or challenge power structures based on gender and nation. Focusing on narratives in local and national newspapers, the essay uses Nira Yuval-Davies’ theory on gender and nation to analyze the debate about the artworks. The conclusion establishes that while two of the artworks are challenging power structures, all debates tend to reproduce structures on gender as well as nation