Un Tarot para leer la memoria de un territorio

Abstract

This tarot was not created to anticipate the future. Its cards do not look toward what is to come, but toward what has already been. That which is inscribed on the bodies, in the streets, and in the voices of those who inhabit these territories. Each card functions as a scene from memory, as a symbol that condenses experiences. Following the traditional logic of the tarot, these cards are divided into Major Arcana, which represent the forces that coexist with the life of the territory, and Minor Arcana, which reveal the concrete ways in which violence manifests itself in everyday life.
However, unlike the traditional tarot (which organizes its images to produce a reading of destiny), this set of cards proposes a different reading. It is no longer an opening toward the future, but rather becomes a practice of reading the past, that which remains alive and which is why we see the need to name it. These cards, then, do not predict, but rather remember.