NY_165 is a quintessential Invader work that translates his globally recognized ceramic tile mosaic language onto a hybrid canvas of acrylic and ID card, merging the public and the bureaucratic in a single charged object. Invader, whose decades-long project has seen him install pixelated Space Invader figures across the walls of cities worldwide, here distills that urban intervention into an intimate, collectible format without sacrificing the democratic punk energy that defines his practice. The ceramic tiles reference both the physicality of his street installations and the 8-bit visual grammar of early arcade games, grounding the work in a nostalgic digital vernacular that speaks to generations shaped by technology and urban visual culture. The inclusion of an ID card as a material substrate introduces themes of identity, surveillance, and the cataloguing of individuals by systems of power — a pointed conceptual layer beneath the playful pixelated surface. Within the Triple Trouble collection, NY_165 situates Invader's street-born methodology in dialogue with the gallery world, asking whether the alien has finally been identified.