AASSAASSIINN is the most notorious agitprop artist in the Yeah Bagel universe. Part street artist, part political vandal, part cultural saboteur, his wheatpastes, stencils, and posters appear overnight on nightclub walls, abandoned warehouses, train underpasses, and corporate construction hoardings. AASSAASSIINN’s work attacks consumerism, empire, political hypocrisy, and the commodification of human suffering.
PEACE, PRESENTED BY EMPIRES is among his most controversial works. The poster depicts a triumphant politician, unmistakably reminiscent of Donald Trump, ceremonially cutting a ribbon in front of the ruins of Gaza. Rendered in the visual language of a heroic state propaganda poster, the image transforms devastation into a public-relations event. The absurdity is intentional. By presenting destruction as a ribbon-cutting ceremony, AASSAASSIINN critiques the way powerful nations and political leaders repackage violence, occupation, and civilian suffering as diplomacy, strategy, or humanitarian concern.
The American flag ribbon functions as both decoration and accusation. The smiling figure occupies the position normally reserved for victorious workers, generals, or national heroes in twentieth-century propaganda. Here, however, the victory being celebrated is morally inverted. The work asks viewers to consider who benefits when war is framed as peace, and how language can be used to obscure responsibility.
Like much of AASSAASSIINN’s output, the poster uses humour as a delivery mechanism for outrage. The joke lands first. The implications arrive a moment later.
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