Stop and Search, 2007
Screen print on paper
77 cm X 58 cm
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“Stop and Search” (2007) is among the artist’s sharpest commentaries on modern policing and civil liberties, translating the UK’s stop-and-search powers into an instantly legible, disquieting tableau: Dorothy and Toto, icons of childhood innocence from The Wizard of Oz, subjected to a police search. The collision between fairytale imagery and bureaucratic authority turns familiar nostalgia into a pointed critique of control, systemic bias, and the erosion of freedom—core themes that have made Banksy’s works on paper both culturally central and highly liquid within the secondary market.
