Ecce Homo (exhibition)
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Ecce Homo was a controversial
The photographs
The photos recreated classical
The photographs are all connected to, and shown together with, quotations from the
Controversy
As the exhibition toured Sweden, primarily in
Some LGBT members of the church described the showing and defend the exhibition as the first time they felt at home in the church and embraced by it. Other LGBT members felt the erotic pictures perpetuated stereotypes about their community, or felt more alienated from the church after the vitriolic debate that followed the exhibition. Tord Harlin, the bishop of Uppsala, described the exhibition as "At best it is bad theology, at worst it is blasphemy." Reflecting upon the exhibition in an interview in 2004, K. G. Hammar said:
Yes I found the picture difficult at a personal level, but that wasn't the issue. This was about homosexuals, a group who have a hard time to feel at home in the church. Should pictures which in a very charged way illustrated their part in Jesus be removed just because we found them difficult on a personal level? Then we would have sent the signal that the church and the homosexuals are two different worlds which are not to be mixed.[2][unreliable source?]
The photo considered most controversial was the one portraying the baptism of Jesus in a public bathhouse, in which the penis of the Jesus character was visible.
Due to archbishop K. G. Hammar's sanction and defense of the exhibition, the
See also
- Homosexuality and Christianity
References
- Prague Post. Archived from the originalon 6 July 2013. Retrieved 6 Jul 2013.
- ^ An Interview With The Swedish Archbishop – Utopia-Politics
- ^ https://archive.wfn.org/1998/10/msg00178.html
- ^ "Påven sams med Hammar efter varmt möte i Rom". Archived from the original on 12 August 2007.