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The back of a white postcard with text to the left side and blank lines on the right. The text to the left, written in spanish, is translated as follows: “Last night I had a dream that a CAI (Immediate Attention Commands police) turned into an abandoned rotting log cabin on the road. I was locked in there, the stacked logs imprisoned me, I couldn't scream and the only lighting was the light that entered through a hole. Tiny helicopters flew around the cabin that looked like flies swirling in the rot, AND police officers peeked out from inside, laughing out loud. They laughed at my fear, they shouted that they wanted to touch me. The helicopters were set on fire, the policemen kept laughing. He ran out and fell into the flow of a river. I tried to fight the current, but eventually I let myself go. I looked up as the river carried me, and I watched the leaves on the trees move, and I kept listening to what was happening in the cabin.”
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Sueños oníricos, misivas de resistencia 2

Lorenzo Camcho

These are 13 illustrated postcards with written dreams people had during the pandemic and the social protests in Colombia. The postcards portray the way in which the collective unconscious was affected by violence and scarcity, they also offer alternative ways of approaching the eternal question of what to do against injustice and adversity.

I've been working on dreams for long enough now. To me, they are very important, strange and beautiful artifacts. When a friend, Andrés Torres, invited me to create this collection of dreams during the pandemic and the social protest in Colombia, I couldn't say no. This is but a sliver of the enormous changes that both events have brought to the already complex oniric structure that sets on the Colombian people. It speaks about our fears, our confusion and pain, but also our resilience and hopes: our imagination.