Banksy's 'Flower Thrower' (also known as 'Love is in the Air', c. 2003) is one of the British street artist's most reproduced stencils. A masked protester draws back his arm to hurl — instead of a molotov cocktail — a vivid bouquet of flowers. The original mural was painted on the wall of a petrol station in Beit Sahour, near the Israeli–Palestinian separation barrier; authorised screen-print and canvas editions have since entered collections worldwide, including SFMOMA and Amsterdam's Moco Museum. Fusing peace and defiance in a single gesture, it is one of the defining anti-violence icons of the 21st century.

Exhibition Venue

SFMOMA

San Francisco, United States