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Pierre Bourdieu wrote in “The Production of Belief” (1977) that the art business would be “a trade in things that have no price.” This phrase, from almost half a century ago, delimits the production that Pedro Victor Brandão has been unfolding since 2013. His works in photography, video, painting, sculpture, and sound expose, converse, twist, mine concretely and symbolically the financial system. By producing these intersections, Pedro outlines part of the productive chain of artistic work – execution, circulation (Instagram posts, art fairs, and museums), sale, collectible items. The work of art is a current asset. Its mobility characterizes the work of art in bourgeois society of the capitalist state. Pedro has been manufacturing this amalgam between works of art (its stories and theories) and the process of f...