Gallery Art - Sarah K STUDIO - Liquidity Trap
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Liquidity Trap by Gallery Art - Sarah K STUDIO, a hand-signed, one-of-a-kind original 60 × 60 cm digital painting and mixed-media contemporary hybrid artwork from Austria (2025), sold with frame, in excellent condition, presented stretched on canvas and including a Certificate of Authenticity.
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Liquidity Trap
Contemporary Hybrid Artwork (Digital Art Project & Physical Object)
60 × 60 cm
Video available: www.galleryart.at
Details
Title: Liquidity Trap
Type: Contemporary hybrid artwork
Medium: Digital art project on canvas with a physically rolled real dollar bill and an Ace playing card integrated into the glass element, forming a sculptural, object-based artwork
Size: 60 × 60 cm
Signature: Hand-signed by the artist
Edition: One of a kind
Certificate: Includes Certificate of Authenticity
Presentation: Stretched on canvas, shipped ready to hang
Artwork Description
Liquidity Trap translates an economic condition into a visible and physical state. A real dollar bill, rolled and immobilized within the composition, becomes the central metaphor: wealth that exists yet no longer circulates. Value is present, exposed, and undeniable — but structurally frozen.
The Ace playing card introduces the logic of chance, risk, and speculative systems. Traditionally a symbol of dominance and potential gain, it here exists in suspension, reflecting environments where probability governs outcomes more than intention. Together, the dollar and the card articulate a tension between accumulation and paralysis, control and randomness.
By embedding real objects into a digital artwork, the work deliberately collapses the boundary between representation and reality. Currency is no longer depicted — it is materially present and deliberately arrested. The piece exists at the intersection of image and object, where meaning is not illustrated but enacted.
Liquidity Trap reflects on contemporary fixation with wealth, visibility, and symbolic power. It questions how abundance can immobilize movement, how value can obstruct perception, and how systems designed to generate security often result in stasis. The work does not resolve this contradiction — it holds it in place.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / STUDIO
Sarah K Studio is a contemporary digital art studio developing concept-driven projects that examine social norms, economic behavior, and systems of value in modern society. The studio’s practice focuses on how abstract structures — such as money, risk, desire, and status — shape perception and decision-making.
Rather than producing conventional prints, Sarah K Studio conceives each artwork as a critical project. Digital images are deliberately interrupted through the integration of real, physical elements that carry cultural and economic meaning. This material intervention transforms the work from reproduction into object, and from image into statement.
Themes such as liquidity traps, speculative behavior, power symbols, and collective fixation recur throughout the studio’s work. By materializing these concepts, Sarah K Studio exposes the tension between abundance and paralysis, freedom and control, visibility and illusion.
Through limited, carefully executed releases, the studio creates works that move beyond decoration — positioned for collectors who engage with contemporary culture, social structures, and long-term relevance.
ABOUT GALLERY ART
Gallery Art is a prestige gallery operating both online and offline, known for rare and carefully curated art drops. Artists and studios are selected through a rigorous curatorial process and represented for their originality, conceptual strength, and material precision.
Rejecting mass production, Gallery Art focuses on exclusivity and long-term relevance. Each release is intentionally limited and positioned as both a cultural statement and a collectible object.
Liquidity Trap was presented through Gallery Art and featured across its digital platforms, including
Instagram: @galleryart
TikTok: @galleryart
reinforcing its positioning within high-end contemporary collecting culture.
Liquidity Trap
Contemporary Hybrid Artwork (Digital Art Project & Physical Object)
60 × 60 cm
Video available: www.galleryart.at
Details
Title: Liquidity Trap
Type: Contemporary hybrid artwork
Medium: Digital art project on canvas with a physically rolled real dollar bill and an Ace playing card integrated into the glass element, forming a sculptural, object-based artwork
Size: 60 × 60 cm
Signature: Hand-signed by the artist
Edition: One of a kind
Certificate: Includes Certificate of Authenticity
Presentation: Stretched on canvas, shipped ready to hang
Artwork Description
Liquidity Trap translates an economic condition into a visible and physical state. A real dollar bill, rolled and immobilized within the composition, becomes the central metaphor: wealth that exists yet no longer circulates. Value is present, exposed, and undeniable — but structurally frozen.
The Ace playing card introduces the logic of chance, risk, and speculative systems. Traditionally a symbol of dominance and potential gain, it here exists in suspension, reflecting environments where probability governs outcomes more than intention. Together, the dollar and the card articulate a tension between accumulation and paralysis, control and randomness.
By embedding real objects into a digital artwork, the work deliberately collapses the boundary between representation and reality. Currency is no longer depicted — it is materially present and deliberately arrested. The piece exists at the intersection of image and object, where meaning is not illustrated but enacted.
Liquidity Trap reflects on contemporary fixation with wealth, visibility, and symbolic power. It questions how abundance can immobilize movement, how value can obstruct perception, and how systems designed to generate security often result in stasis. The work does not resolve this contradiction — it holds it in place.
ABOUT THE ARTIST / STUDIO
Sarah K Studio is a contemporary digital art studio developing concept-driven projects that examine social norms, economic behavior, and systems of value in modern society. The studio’s practice focuses on how abstract structures — such as money, risk, desire, and status — shape perception and decision-making.
Rather than producing conventional prints, Sarah K Studio conceives each artwork as a critical project. Digital images are deliberately interrupted through the integration of real, physical elements that carry cultural and economic meaning. This material intervention transforms the work from reproduction into object, and from image into statement.
Themes such as liquidity traps, speculative behavior, power symbols, and collective fixation recur throughout the studio’s work. By materializing these concepts, Sarah K Studio exposes the tension between abundance and paralysis, freedom and control, visibility and illusion.
Through limited, carefully executed releases, the studio creates works that move beyond decoration — positioned for collectors who engage with contemporary culture, social structures, and long-term relevance.
ABOUT GALLERY ART
Gallery Art is a prestige gallery operating both online and offline, known for rare and carefully curated art drops. Artists and studios are selected through a rigorous curatorial process and represented for their originality, conceptual strength, and material precision.
Rejecting mass production, Gallery Art focuses on exclusivity and long-term relevance. Each release is intentionally limited and positioned as both a cultural statement and a collectible object.
Liquidity Trap was presented through Gallery Art and featured across its digital platforms, including
Instagram: @galleryart
TikTok: @galleryart
reinforcing its positioning within high-end contemporary collecting culture.
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Artist
Gallery Art - Sarah K STUDIO
Sold with frame
Yes
Sold by
Gallery
Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Liquidity Trap
Technique
Digital painting, Mixed media
Signature
Hand signed
Country of Origin
Austria
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
60 cm
Width
60 cm
Style
Pop Art
Period
2020+
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