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CCTV Angel
YEAR
2008
MEDIUM
Spray paint / stencil
LOCATION
Shoreditch, London
COUNTRY
UK
[ DESCRIPTION ]
An angel figure kneels in devotion before a CCTV surveillance camera mounted on a wall.
[ CRITICAL ANALYSIS ]
The CCTV camera as idol — an object of reverence and supplication in a surveillance society. Banksy ironises both the architecture of control and our passivity toward it. The angelic figure undercuts any reading of surveillance as benevolent protection.
[ THEMES ]