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Documentary image — educational archive purposes only
extant
Choose Your Weapon
YEAR
2010
MEDIUM
Screen print
LOCATION
Various (print)
COUNTRY
UK
[ DESCRIPTION ]
A hooded figure walks a dog on a lead — the dog is a dancing poodle; the figure adopts the posture of a threatening street youth.
[ CRITICAL ANALYSIS ]
Banksy plays with the visual language of urban danger and class anxiety. The hooded figure, read by tabloid culture as threatening, walks an absurdly genteel dog — deflating the fear-narrative and exposing the gap between stereotype and reality.
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