Parallels

This video installation explores the city of El Alto, Bolivia, documenting the daily movement five years after Evo Morales was elected President for the Movimiento al Socialismo, bringing an era of dramatic social change in Bolivia. The Morales administration brought unprecedented economic growth, a new movement of individual pride and respect for all of Bolivia’s ethnic groups, and ended the previous project of homogeneity. Ironically, the Morales era has also brought with it a rollback of women’s rights and an increase in LGBT hate crimes and femicides in Bolivia.Parallels records an indigenous women’s wrestling show held in a Cholet, focusing on the audience and the building’s interiors over the show. Parallels makes a nod to Guy Debord’s Situationist film In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimurm Igni: un film (1978) of which Debord wrote: “the theme of the film is not the spectacle, but real life”.