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Posted: 2016-02-23T17:11:01Z | Updated: 2016-02-23T17:20:35Z

"Welcome to the champagne life," Ne-Yo croons on his 2010 album "Libra Scale." "Where trouble is a bubble in the champagne glass, dreams and reality are one and the same, and we gon' do it like this."

Ne-Yo's lyrics might seem like improbable inspiration for a fine art exhibition, but, then again, it's 2016, and we're just as likely to see Kim Kardashian in the center of a canvas as we are the beheading of Holofernes or the faade of a cathedral at different times of the day.

In fact, such is the case with Julia Wachtel 's conveniently titled "Champagne Life ," which displays an inverted and repeated image of Kim K and Kanye West, curiously standing next to a painted Mini Mouse sculpture. "The work seems to poke fun at the empty nature of our celebrity culture," Nigel Hurst, CEO of the Saatchi Gallery in London, explained to The Huffington Post.