“A psychological atlas drawn on a crumbling wall”.

Sometimes the artist’s description of their project is all you need to know. In the daily battering of your brain by the oligarchal media machine, you question your own judgment and perception, and shift the blame down the food chain, instead of up where it belongs. No wonder you are in such a state.

It’s nice to have Biancoshock back, after some time without news about him. He says he was lying low, but nonetheless, “I have more or less 50-60 unpublished projects.”

So here’s one, and if you see your brain in the mirror, it’s because the propaganda is raining so dang hard now. “The lands are arid surfaces, no longer capable of producing anything natural,” he tells us, “while all around, an Ocean of Pessimism engulfs everything.”

An Italian (born 1982 in Milan) conceptual street artist, known for his ironic and provocative public art installations, Biancoshock keeps his identity hidden, as usual. He first cut his teeth in the graffiti scene in the mid-1990s, spending nearly a decade tagging walls and exploring the underground world of street writing. In 2004, he shifted gears and launched what he calls an “Urban Hacking” practice – treating the city itself as a canvas for witty interventions using everyday objects.

Here, we see that the interventionist has also carried out his practice by hiking in the neglected urban landscape. Here we find his discussion about nation-states and psychological states is in full view, under deconstruction.

“The five continents outline a universe fragmented into smaller emotional states, coexisting and feeding off one another,” he says. “We are flooded with facts and images depicting a world in constant decline, often without realizing that what deteriorates the most, day by day, is our inner world.

This is my world, with its own states.”