While this indeed looks absolutely horrible and is extremely tone deaf, and probably even does show some kind of level of closeted racism by the minister, for choosing to proceed with this, this was an art piece about racism and the issues of female genital mutilation (most common in countries of Africa) by a Swedish POC artist, and all of this happened within an exhibition about artistic freedoms, to which the minister got invited to and all of this happened over a decade ago. I remember reading about it when it happened. Not exactly news, not sure why post it now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makode_Linde#Painful_Cake_2012
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Adelsohn_Liljeroth#Political_Life