Facebook profile pictures wanted for display at the Louvre

Facebook profile pictures could soon be featured in an exhibition at the Louvre, the Met or London's National Portrait Gallery.) (YouTube.com/ProfilePictureExhib)Has anybody ever you told that your Facebook profile picture is a work of art?

If a new collaborative arts project spearheaded by a team of Londoners proves successful, it could actually become one.

The creators of The Profile Picture Exhibition are working to get portraits of today's world citizens hanging alongside those of historical figures at The Louvre in Paris, The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and London's National Portrait gallery.

"Museums need to know that the world has changed, along with its portraits, and ours are frankly way better," says the narrator of the project's video as photographs of people dressed in costumes posing outrageously and making duck-faces flash across the screen.

"Each one of our profile pics is a statement about who we are," he continues. "It's finally time we claimed our space in art history."

All three institutions have accepted the proposition, according to CNET -- under one condition: The project's Facebook group must first reach one million members.

Once it does, "every single person" who joined the group will have their mug on display at one of thee museums, promise the creators Ben Beale and Rory Forrest in their video.

As a gesture of appreciation, when the group hit 1000 members the duo hosted an exhibition to display each member's profile photo at The Department of Coffee and Social Affairs in London.

Ben Beale and Rory Forrest with portraits of the first 1000 members of their Profile Picture Exhibition Facebook group, on display at a coffee shop in London. (The Profile Picture Exhibition / Facebook)

"If our profile pics can be considered art, the profile picture phenomenon has to be the biggest art movement of all time," Beale told CNET. "A truly humbling thought." Ben Beale and Rory Forrest, the duo behind the initiative, guarantee in the video that when they reach their total "

The group has approximately 2,300 members.

What are your thoughts? Are Facebook profile photos suitable for display in a national gallery or museum? Would you be excited to have your face on display at the Louvre?