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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: “A troop of the dead passed through the street of my neighborhood recruiting volunteers. People crowded through the doors with photos of their sons and daughters missing in the protests to see if the skeletons recognized them. A woman came out with her husband's photo in her hand, touched the shoulder of one of the soldiers who stopped, scratched her skull, shrugged her shoulders, and continued on her way. Then Doña Marisol came out with the photo of her adolescent son, slipped through the rows and stood up to the dead man who had medals hanging from his rib cage. They pushed it away with a scythe. They kept marching to the rhythm of something like the national anthem.”

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Sueños oníricos, misivas de resistencia 18

Lorenzo Camacho

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.

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