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”The pseudonymous digital art provocateur Kid Xanthrax exists at the periphery of cyberculture, invoking irreverence for commercial, fine art practice through dank meme aesthetics and absurdist humour. Some may find it distasteful but Kid Xanthrax’s will intrigue those with a morbid fascination for the most bizarre and disturbing forms found on the Internet. 

While Kid Xanthrax is an extremely online entity, they eschew the kitsch conventions of net and post-net art for a meta-mimetic anti-aesthetic that is more indebted to Burroughsian cut-up method and Cronenbergian body horror than whimsical seapunk dolphins or virtual plaza pastiche. For Kid Xanthrax, cyberspace is not some sort of escapist fantasy realm but, rather, a manifestation of the collective unconscious, a repository for humanity’s psychological excrement.  

In this respect, their work acts as a reflection of our own private, repressed horrors and fantasies – subject matter includes but is not limited to: Renaissance paintings as furries, reptoid e-girls, Shrek fan-fic, trypophobia-triggering clickbait, extreme body modification and posthuman flesh orgies.

Transgression of aesthetic conventions is a core tenet of Kid Xanthrax’s brand, evident not only in the content of their work but also in the manner of its presentation. Kid Xanthrax’s work has been exhibited in various different settings, including gallery spaces, virtual exhibitions and even public parks. Informed by Dadaism and guerilla art methodology, Kid Xanthrax infiltrates these different spaces, confronting passive viewers, and sometimes, the general public, with their signature hyperreal graphics and installations.”


- Griffin Martel for CLOT mag