LGBT Free zones Poland signs - Strefy Wolne od LGBT znaki
▻https://lgbtfreezones.pl
Recently Poland has witnessed an unprecedented wave of institutionalized homophobia. A sizeable number of local governments have declared their regions LGBT-free zones by means of passing legal acts (see below for example of such act) which serve to stigmatize and exclude members of the LGBT community. As of August 2019, Poland has seen around 30 copy-paste-like LGBT-free zone declarations passed, including four voivodeships in the south-east of the country: Lesser Poland, Podkarpackie, Świetokrzyskie, and Lublin. As of now the LGBT-free zone landscape has risen to around 90 regions.
My photographic project is an attempt at showing real-life effects of these symbolic legal acts.
Although Zones are real, the road sign is prepared by Bart Staszewski to put a human face to cruel homophobic legislation. The LGBT-free zone project is meant to be read as a visualisation of the new law introduced in Poland and to raise awareness about the violation of LGBT rights in those areas both locally and internationally.
#art #photographie #LGBTphobie #homophobie #Pologne
Petit détail linguistique : les territoires sont « wolny od LGBT » (libres de) plutôt que « bez LGBT » (sans LGBT), histoire de produire une com plus attrayante.
