You like satirical guerrilla art, but ever since Banksy’s anarchic but intelligent graffiti has became an artist study in every fifteen year olds sketchbook and adored by every Notting Hill housewife you’ve found that the once cherished love affair with the anonymous art-vandal began to wane.
Fear no more, smash and grab culture has a new idol, Invader. He plays art like a game, making his own rules, deciding where and when to play and he just keeps scoring. His game consists of invading cities with mosaics depicting Space Invader and Pac-man inspired pixel characters, smuggling them onto walls, signs, pillars even the letters of the HOLLYWOOD sign have been graced by his images. So far forty cities across five continents have unknowing played host to Invader’s ‘reality game’; some have suffered multiple waves.
“Most of the time, I try to adapt myself to the local styles” he explains. In Kathmandu, Nepalthe 1970’s game characters spawn extra limbs or are adorned with the ‘Third Eye’ a symbolic red dot between the eyes similar to many images of local deities. In London one such character is depicted in full union-jack glory. Some critics have called his work ‘western cannibalism’, they accuse Invader of seeking out one cultures holiest locales and degrading them with our most trivial, mindless pixelated deities.
The images are playful and surprising, catching sight of one is likely to hit you with a wave of nostalgia and amusement. They kind of thing that will keep you smiling through out the day like seeing a pretty girl blush slightly when she trips in a busy street.
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