Peter Drew is known as a political street artist, but for months he has been sharing his new muscular physique online – and ‘provoking’ some of his fans
‘Some people just don’t get it, because they like my political posters and they see me working out as being the polar opposite’: artist Peter Drew in a portrait for his project The Narcissist.‘Some people just don’t get it, because they like my political posters and they see me working out as being the polar opposite’: artist Peter Drew in a portrait for his project The Narcissist.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning “On some level it’s the biblical thing of the flesh versus the spirit,” he says. “The flesh is suspect and anti-egalitarian in a way. I work out, I get stronger. I’m stronger than you. It’s about individual achievement, whereas on the more collectivist side there’s this real intellectual contempt for the flesh. It’s left over from Puritans and the priesthood, but it carries over now into academics and collectivist thought.
This time Drew has opted for self-portraiture, though what true transformation will occur through The Narcissist is yet to be seen: “The nature of self-portraiture is that the artist inevitably shows a part of themselves that they’re not really conscious of.”
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