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Rat with Sign
YEAR
2004
MEDIUM
Spray paint / stencil
LOCATION
Various (London, Paris)
COUNTRY
UK
[ DESCRIPTION ]
A rat holding a placard with various political or absurdist slogans depending on the location.
[ CRITICAL ANALYSIS ]
Banksy's use of rats as protest figures is a recurring motif. The rat — urban, invisible, ubiquitous — becomes the spokesperson for the city's underclass. Rats appear in Banksy's work because, as the artist has noted, they are reviled yet survive everything we throw at them.
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