Quyllur Rit'i

On the slopes of the Ausangate, the highest hill in the department of Cusco, is celebrated as almost 300 years ago, one of the most important syncretic representations of the South Peruvian Andean that, for the experts, was born as a necessity of the Catholic Church to placate the indigenous revolutionary outbursts that removed the foundations of the then colonial regime. Indigenous and mestizo pilgrims, once a year from the “4 Suyos”, to places sacred to them since pre-Hispanic times. They come to worship the deities of their ancestors; an explosion of faith and adoration under a visible and nuanced Christian framework. For three days, to a town that doesn’t forget, that feels original in it, every breath of the mountain. That connection is palpable only by those who flow in harmony with their living environment. The elements allied with each other to tell us a truth through their sons. The APU is alive.

The photographs are reflected as an adventure towards that connection. A personal and deconstructive journey towards the origin. A pilgrimage to ancient times, to the days of our first parents. A project, still under construction, looking for the people who still celebrate, who join their ancestral roots.