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    the saatchi gallery wants to see your best selfie

    As part of its upcoming exhibition, the London institution is running a competition to find the ultimate selfie.

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    What was Frida Kahlo’s favorite Snapchat filter? Did Van Gogh use a selfie stick? What did Rembrant upload to his Instagram story? All this and more may well be answered at the Saatchi Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, From Selfie to Self-Expression. The exhibition will trace a route from classical self-portraiture to the works of Kim Kardashian, and young British photographers who explore self-portraiture via contemporary art.

    Juno Calypso, Tracey Emin, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Rembrandt, Cindy Sherman, Gavin Turk, and Velazquez, will be joined by icons of the digital age. A series of lols photographs — like that time Benedict Cumberbatch did a photobomb behind U2, or that image of about 1000 people all taking a selfie in front of Hillary Clinton, or that picture of Michelle Obama looking pissed whilst Barack, the Prime Minister of Denmark, and David Cameron all took a selfie — will hang alongside masterworks.

    Read: Juno Calypso’s staged self-portraits explore beauty rituals behind bathroom doors.

    What’s best about the whole thing, though, is the fact that you join be joining them all in the exhibition. All you need to do is get out your phone, take a selfie, and submit to Saatchi. The gallery will choose the best one, which will become part of the exhibition. There will also be 10 runners up, each of whom will win a cameraphone courtesy of the exhibition’s sponsor, Huawei.

    ‘From Selfie to Self-Expression’ is on view from March 31 – July 23, 2017. Get pouting. Get snapping. Enter here.

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    Text Felix Petty

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