andrei barrett's work explores queer desire, fantasy, identity, and sexuality within the context of a meme-saturated internet. interested in how digital modes of representation simulate reality and inform our perception of self, he appropriates found imagery and text to examine the social concerns of an image-based culture. sourcing material from twitter memes, pornography, and facebook family archives, barrett utilizes found symbols and imagery to reconstruct performances of masculinity across personal and collective histories. working within this framework, barrett explores growing up online and navigating the friction between queerness and heterosexuality.
rendered through drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture, these sources are translated onto physical surfaces. recontextualizing these representations, he parodies and re-encodes these idealizations of phallocentricism to unmask its implicit homoeroticism.
andrei barrett (b. 2003) is a multidisciplinary artist based in brooklyn, ny and portland, or. currently, he is pursuing his bfa in studio art at new york university.
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