If Homophobia Ended Tomorrow

2021

12min

Conceptual artist Paul Harfleet (the man behind the Pansy Project) plants pansies on the sites of homophobic abuse for fifteen years. With this act he tries to transform the memory of the city, to mark the places of homophobic attack and simultaneously to free it from the anger and bad memories highlighting the strength of the movement against homophobia. In Autumn 2019 Paul brought his project to Stavanger, Norway. Yet there were no pansies for him to plant...