BANKSY // Vandalised Phone Box, 2005

  • Banksy’s 2005 Vandalized Phone Box sliced and bent, powerful anti-system installation piece.
    Banksy, Vandalized Phone Box, 2005.
    Metal, acrylic, glass.
    © Banksy.
    In Vandalised Phone Box (2005), Banksy swaps spray paint for sculpture, delivering a hammer blow to British nostalgia. A once-proud red telephone booth lies collapsed and mutilated in a London alley, oozing red paint like blood from a fresh wound. A pickaxe protrudes from its frame, transforming the familiar civic symbol into a crime scene of metaphorical proportions.
     
    This is not mere vandalism but a brutal eulogy. The work mourns the collapse of public infrastructure, the analogue age, and the illusion that institutions still serve the people. At the same time, it satirises how even destruction can be absorbed as cultural capital. Installed overnight in Soho, Vandalised Phone Box epitomises Banksy’s ability to turn disruption into spectacle, blending shock, humour, and critique in a single unforgettable gesture.
     
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  • “Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world, I can’t even finish my second apple pie.”

    – Banksy

    Vandalised Phone Box (2005) is a sculptural installation consisting of a collapsed red British telephone booth, split open with a pickaxe and spilling red paint across the pavement. First appearing in Soho Square, London, the work subverts a symbol of British civility and order by rendering it powerless, broken, and absurd. It reflects Banksy’s interest in institutional critique and the transformation of ordinary public objects into sites of provocation.
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