Potencias de Diez: Sobre La Riqueza de Las Naciones es un proyecto que utiliza instrumentos de visualización para hacer imágenes del libro La Riquezas de Naciones. El proyecto sirve para protegernos de las influencias del libro. Tomadas con un microscopio y un drone, las imágenes usan las potencias de diez para incitar su poder psicomágico. Estas imágenes se enraizan a través de intervenciones escultóricas.
Powers of Ten on Wealth of Nations is a project that uses visualization instruments to create images of the book Wealth of Nations. The project functions as an apotropaic spell against the book’s influences. Taken with a microscope and a drone the images use the powers of ten as a psychomagic power. The works are then grounded through sculptural interventions.
BIO
Mariana Parisca (she/they) is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator from the USA and Venezuela. Through sculptural, lens-based, and performative works, they investigate cultural notions of the relationship between matter and consciousness and its implications on contemporary global economics, consumer culture, and geopolitical identities.
Parisca earned an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2020 and a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015. Parisca’s work has shown at dOCUMENTA 15, Kassel, Germany; CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; Mas Allá, Bogota, Colombia; Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA; Rudimento in Quito, Ecuador; NARS Foundation in New York City, NY; the New Wight Biennial in Los Angeles, CA; the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond, VA; the Virginia MOCA in Virginia Beach, VA; and New Works Gallery in Chicago, IL among others. Mariana has received various awards including an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Tribble Grant, the Eliot Scholarship, and the Paul F. Miller Scholarship. They have been artist in residence at Materia Abierta, Casa Lu, Poco a Poco, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Nave Proyecto, Vermont Studio Center, Visual Arts Center in Richmond, VA, and Studio Two Three.
