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The Cost of Beauty

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Valérie Belin and Alfredo Jaar join curator Brandei Estes to explore how beauty can confront uncomfortable truths. Taking their Prix Pictet winning series as a starting point, they discuss photography’s power to address consumption, environmental loss and human impact, and ask whether seductive images can make us look more closely at the world around us.

Brandei Estes - Valérie Belin, Alfredo Jaar

Presented by Prix Pictet

Valérie Belin, Still Life with Mirror, 2014 - Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels

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Nov. 12 – 15, 2026