The Worth of Venus

THE WORTH OF VENUS

IDOL TO OBJECT

What is a goddess worth when she is no longer worshipped, but but consumed by the gaze? Viewed, not venerated? When her divinity is stripped and her body catalogued, cropped, and sold?

This work is a meditation on the commodification of beauty, the collapse of the sacred into spectacle. The Worth of Venus reimagines the myth not as a birth, but as a transaction — a goddess not emerging from the sea, but being appraised through glass screens and hungry eyes.

She is not adored. She is exposed. Not revered, but ranked.

In this re-enactment, the altar is digital, the offering is her body, and the high priests are the algorithm and the male gaze.

The sacred made sordid.
The divine, devoured.

It is a musing on how we do this to ourselves every day.