AASSAASSIINN borrows the visual certainty of political posters, corporate advertising and public-information campaigns, then twists them into uncomfortable questions about who benefits, who pays, and who disappears from the picture.
In PLEASE WAIT FOR AUTHENTICATION, a colossal bureaucratic stamp marked “APPROVED BY AI™” hangs over a queue of citizens awaiting permission to speak, work, create and participate. Those approved receive legitimacy; those rejected dissolve into digital static. The image satirises the growing transfer of human judgement to opaque algorithmic systems, suggesting a future in which visibility itself becomes conditional. What first appears to be a promise of efficiency gradually reveals itself as a warning about power, conformity and the automation of authority.
PROCEED TO CREATE. is conceived as a companion piece to PLEASE WAIT FOR AUTHENTICATION. Together, the two works explore a shared question: what happens when human judgment is gradually outsourced to systems that claim neutrality, efficiency and safety?
The visual language deliberately echoes the earlier poster. Monumental machinery, Soviet-style propaganda composition and corporate reassurance combine to create a world where permission masquerades as progress. The machine appears benevolent. It offers safety, optimisation and visibility. Yet its true power lies not in censorship but in distribution. Ideas are not banned. They are ranked, filtered, amplified or quietly ignored.
Viewed together, the two posters form a diptych about algorithmic authority. PLEASE WAIT FOR AUTHENTICATION asks who gets to participate in society. PROCEED TO CREATE. asks who gets to shape culture. The answer in both cases is increasingly determined by systems that present themselves as impartial while exercising immense influence over what becomes visible, trusted and valuable.
Part of the Yeah Bagel universe, AASSAASSIINN functions as its resident agitpop artist, repurposing the visual certainty of propaganda to expose the ambiguities and contradictions of contemporary power.
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