Group show at the Museo Casa de Moneda (Bogota, Colombia), curated by Florencia Battiti for BIENALSUR 2025. Open to the public from 06/26/2025 through 01/31/2026.

If art is ultimately a commodity, it is undoubtedly one of the most unique on the market. We all know that the price of a work of art is not necessarily an indicator of its value. Two realities coexist in artistic artifacts: the invaluable worth bestowed by their symbolic value, and the price, determined by market forces. In fact, alluding to this curious paradox, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu pointed out that the art market is the “trade of things that are not marketable.” Indeed, symbolic value and market value coexist in works of art as two variables that impact each other, maintaining a tension between them. Furthermore, some of the qualities inherent in works of art —intellectual surplus value, epistemological potential, affective value, and disinterested pleasure— cannot be easily translated into economic categories. Through the works of Marta Minujin, Dabogerto Rodríguez, Alicia Herrero, Esteban Álvarez and Laura Ojeda Bär, the exhibition proposes to explore some of the artists of this paradox, considering art as part of the market but, at the same time, as a potential opponent and artistic practice as counter-practice, that is, as an analytical and intervention practice that aspires to transform the field of art.