Name: Space Waffle
Brand: Invader
Rating: 5 (234 reviews)

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Invader's Space Waffle (signed) is a mixed media artwork from 2011, estimated to be worth between £2,150 and £3,200. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an auction history of 5 total sales since its entry to the market in June 2012. In the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £3,000 in December 2023 to £4,500 in December 2020. The average annual growth rate for this work is -2%. This work is part of a limited edition of 100.

Auction Date

Auction House

Location

Hammer Price

Return to Seller

Buyer Paid

December 2023

Tate Ward Auctions

United Kingdom

November 2022

Digard

France

October 2021

Digard

France

December 2020

Tate Ward Auctions

United Kingdom

September 2017

Julien's Auctions

United States

December 2013

Digard

France

June 2012

De Baecque & Associates

Lyon

Meaning & Analysis

This signed artwork from 2011 is a limited edition of 100 from Invader’s Space collection. Perhaps one of Invader’s most extravagant and curious works, the artwork is a vacuumed waffle representing one of the artist’s typical Space Invader characters, standing on a silver aluminium background on plexiglass.

Like his other Space One (pink) and Art4Space again Invader expresses his love for and fascination with outer space and sci-fi universes. Even though the artist never confirmed it, it may not be a stretch to claim that the title, other than referencing the clear subject matter and medium of the piece, also refers to the popular sci-fi movie Star Wars. In the film universe created by George Lucas, so-called ‘space waffles’ are mentioned repeatedly as a type of food that could be found on the planet Lothal.

Undoubtedly the artwork plays on and adds to Invader’s artistic variations on the theme of the Japanese video game, retaining the mischievous and witty character of his experiments. However, precisely because of the defiant nature of most of Invader’s projects, as well as his acknowledged engagement with cultural icons (see Aladdin Sane) it is not absurd to hypothesise that this artwork might also conceal cultural references to be detected only by those who, like the artist, are true sci-fi lovers.