Johan Barrett (1983) is a Stockholm based artist, with both American and Swedish roots. For several years, Johan Barrett’s motifs have been characterized by different approaches to the present. For a period, he embodied the inability to be in the present moment through the escape of thought to temporary ideal states in holiday resorts and exotic destinations. Barrett has continued with these frozen moments of happiness, somewhere else beyond the everyday, but he has also begun to approach the presence in the now, that can be achieved in any place,with still lifes and landscapes.