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Painting "Selfie e. Social Currency"

Katrin Valgemäe

Regular price €3.500,00

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✨ Exhibitions:
📍 Kadrioru Gallery | 20.11.2024 - 18.01.2025
📍 Pärnu City Gallery | 09.03 - 03.05.2025

Social currency is a modern extension of Pierre Bourdieu’s 1980s ideas of social and cultural capital, which emphasized the non-monetary forms of status derived from networks and cultural assets.

A selfie is the new currency of today.
We use it to pay our dues.

We no longer ask: “How are you doing?”
We scroll and evaluate: “Are you marketable today?”

This painting explores how we market ourselves,
position our self as a brand,
and maybe, sometimes forget
that we are not a product, but a person.

  • 100 x 100 cm 
  • Oil on canvas 
  • 2024
  • Original artwork by Katrin Valgemäe
  • Certificate of Authenticity
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