Postcards for Oswaldo Reynoso

"Regarding my attitude as a man and as a writer, I must say that I am in favor of violence, but not irrational violence, rather intelligent, organized violence, to change the country. The other positions of slow or gradual reform or peaceful revolutions, in my personal opinion, are deceptions: the only solution for the country is violence." -Oswaldo Reynoso

In 2018, Peru experienced its first presidential change before the end of the five-year term. Since then, a total of seven people have held the presidency, resulting in one of the highest rates of corruption and crime in the country's history. This violence manifests itself in various aspects, including within government institutions and in society as a whole.

Postcards for Oswaldo Reynoso is a visual exploration of and questioning of the concept of sociopolitical violence in my country, using as a basis quotes and interviews with the Peruvian writer Oswaldo Reynoso that address the concept of violence in Peru. It combines video footage of various murders due to extortion and contract killings that have occurred throughout the country with my own documentation of the protests that took place between 2023 and 2025 during the presidential administrations of Dina Boluarte and José Jerí, where government repression of protesters continues, having already resulted in 51 deaths.

This ongoing project is a visual letter towards the recapitulation of what we have achieved as a country with an uncertain, pessimistic, and cruel future, which from a visual perspective proposes to look not for the culprits (who we already know who they are), but for where we are going as a society and government in a country already destroyed from various human branches under violence as the main idea and routine of us as Peruvians.