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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: “I think I open my eyes. I no longer see the fear but the gloom. In the distance a light goes on, a pair of boots, a bolillo, a green jacket pass by. I can't see my hands, I feel them cold, I remember the brutal spray from the tank. I only remember the voice: “That what happens to a vandal.” I touch my face and I have no mouth. For a second I am speechless.”
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Sueños oníricos, misivas de resistencia 26

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.