CORRIENTE
MARIANA PARISCA
JANUARY 20–FEBRUARY 20, 2022
MÁS ALLÁ, BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
mariana parisca: Corriente
January 20–February 20, 2022
Mas Allá, Cra. 17 #71-10 201 Bogotá, Colombia
Mateo Arciniegas Huertas, Axel y Rigo, 2021
ACOMPI and Mariana Parisca present Corriente at Más Allá, Bogota. Mariana Parisca, Venezuelan-born artist and professor based in Richmond, Virginia, presents a new body of work using microscopic images of Venezuelan bolivares framed in car tires. The work continues Parisca’s exploration of global value and liberty and in relation to the Venezuelan diaspora and neoliberal politics.
Mariana Parisca, Hilo de Seguridad de 20,000 bolívares soberanos, 2022. Impresión litográfica en BFK Rives, 66 cm x 55 cm (26 in x 20 in).
Venezuelan currency, the Bolivar, has exceeded an inflation rate of more than 10,000,000%, the highest ever recorded. The fleshy appearance of the microscopic image of the Five Bolivar bill, brings to mind the human toll of the mismanagement of the Venezuelan economy on its citizens. The car tire frame is symbolic to Venezuela's most prized resource—crude oil—currently at its lowest recorded value, while Venezuela's political and economic situation remains dire. As part of the exhibition, Parisca will engage Venezuelan migrants in Colombia in discussions of the work. In moving image works experienced intimately, Parisca’s narration critiques nationalist and global belief systems that define value over microscopic images of bolivares. Parisca questions the American idea of liberty as more about negating global relations and responsibilities than civil rights and freedoms.
Mariana Parisca, Olas de Agua en 20 bolívares fuertes, 2022. Impresión litográfica en BFK Rives, caucho. 30 ½ cm x 99 cm (12 in x 39 in)
Mariana Parisca, El Segundo Cero de 2,000 bolívares soberanos, 2022. Impresión litográfica en BFK Rives, caucho 33 cm x 53 cm (13 in x 21 in)
ABOUT MARIANA PARISCAS
Mariana Parisca (b. 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator. She is a 2020 graduate of the Virginia Commonwealth University Sculpture + Extended Media MFA program and received a BFA in Studio Art and Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. She immigrated to the United States from Venezuela in 2000. Her work consists of research, exercises, performances, artifacts, videos, and printed matter that aim to create methods to deflate the illusions and disembodied ideologies of the modernist and colonial projects. Parisca’s work has shown at art institutions across the US including the New Wight Biennial in Los Angeles, CA, 1708 Gallery, Anderson Gallery, and Cherry Gallery and the Museum of History and Culture in Richmond, VA, the Virginia MOCA, in Virginia Beach, VA, Bruno David Gallery, Sheldon Gallery, Des Lee Gallery, and the CAM in St. Louis, and New Works Gallery in Chicago, IL. She has received various awards including the Eliot Scholarship, and the Paul F. Miller Scholarship, and recently received Best in Show Award at Virginia MOCA. She is critically engaged in shaping art institutions and education and has worked to do this in various roles including her current role teaching printmaking and photography at University of Mary Washington, her role as Admissions Counselor at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and her past involvement in community projects with Immigrant Movement International, and St. Louis Story Stitchers.
ABOUT MÁS ALLÁ
Más Allá is a project space for exhibitions, laboratories, workshops, studios, and concerts. Located in the northern Concepción neighborhood of Bogotá (Cra. 17 No. 71-10, second floor), Más Allá was founded in 2014, when a group of artists create an independent space in an accessible area of the city.