Reminiscencias del Sumapaz. Imágenes de vida, lucha y resistencia campesina

Abstract

This project has as purpose reconstruct and make visible the memories of my maternal family, rooted in the political and social context of the 1950s in Sumapaz, a region marked by violence and peasant struggle. My maternal grandparents were witnesses and participants in the revolutionary organization led by Juan de la Cruz Varela, which led them to face political persecution and keep their experiences and memories in family privacy. The reconstruction of these experiences will be carried out through the act of reminiscence, an introspective process that connects the past with the present and provides a new perspective on events. Additionally, it will focus on collecting testimonies through oral history, which will take into account the stories passed down by my grandparents and some other relatives. These personal narratives will be put into dialogue with public and private archives to build a comprehensive vision of historical events. Using artistic languages, spaces will be conceived where memory reappears with a deep symbolic value, materializing narratives that allow me to recognize my identity and that of my family. In this way, the construction of memory through images becomes an act of resistance against oblivion.