Art for Impact: For a fistful of bolivars

By Steve Hide August 24, 2019
Andrés Chapparo, left, and Justin Rovig use defunct Venezuelan bolivar notes in their Bogotá art show this month. Photo: Steve Hide.
Andrés Chaparro, left, and Jason Rovig use defunct Venezuelan bolivar notes in their Bogotá art show this month. Photo: Steve Hide.

This banknote-themed exhibition is a timely reminder of the continuing crisis in Venezuela.

Ever wish you had a ton of money? You might think differently in Venezuela, where the collapsed economy has pushed inflation to 10 million per cent this year. This has rendered the local bolivar currency – which has gone through two reincarnations lopping off tens of zeros in recent years – into just so much coloured paper.

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