{"id":525,"date":"2026-02-09T13:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/gats-comes-out-at-midnight-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:35:47","slug":"gats-comes-out-at-midnight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/gats-comes-out-at-midnight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GATS Comes Out at &#8220;Midnight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.juxtapoz.com\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/2e63bc15e8f5e304a38c258607359d29_L.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">The perks and drawbacks of being a masked figure are roughly the same: nobody can know you. While this anonymity frees graffiti artists like GATS (Graffiti Against the System), it also means the painter has had to connect with their audience beyond a personal identity. Over decades of painting city walls, warehouses, underpasses, and highways worldwide, GATS has built a community that instantly recognizes the bearded or toothed mask as representing the artist\u2019s presence. In their newest solo exhibition with Harman Projects, Midnight, GATS recontextualizes the familiar masked face with a sense of play and irreverence, leaning into the freedom of being a masked figure themselves.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perks and drawbacks of being a masked figure are roughly the same: nobody can know you. While this anonymity frees graffiti artists like GATS (Graffiti Against the System), it also means the paint<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graffiti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inventivelenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}