PARAKUPÁ VENÁ (FALL FROM THE HIGHEST POINT)
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The Venezuelan currency, the Bolivar, has exceeded a 10,000,000% inflation rate, the highest recorded such rate in the world. Parakupá Vená (Fall From the Highest Point) is an experimental film completely composed of microscopic footage of the hyperinflated currency bills. In the film, a narrator alludes to national and personal histories represented on the bills, while Parakupá Vená, the tallest waterfall in the world, also known as Angel Falls, becomes a metaphor for the extreme capital collapse. The images of landscapes on the bills reveal the persistence of image-making as a colonial tool for the incorporation of land into accumulated value.
Parakupá Vená precedes Celaje.
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About the Director
Mariana Parisca is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator. They received an MFA from the Sculpture + Extended Media department at Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Studio Art and Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. In 2000, Parisca immigrated to the USA from Venezuela. Through a decolonial feminist approach, she creates performances, sculptural artifacts, videos, and printed matter that question and redefine the social abstractions that shape value, resource distribution, and consumption in the Americas. Parisca’s work has shown at art institutions across the USA.
