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An illustrated postcard. On a dark green background, the red figure of a person is crouched into a ball, holding their knees to their chest. The person has a skull drawn over their face in a pale white color. On their arm and back of their thigh are two holes where bones peak through, plants coming out of the spaces. They are on their back, lying on red plants and leaves.
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Sueños oníricos, misivas de resistencia 5

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.