“El tiempo del campesino” is an agricultural and revolutionary calendar that, on the one hand, shows the cycle of planting and harvesting potatoes in the southern Andes and, on the other hand, portrays figures that represent different moments of struggle for sovereignty and liberation of the land.

The series of paintings depict historical figures such as Juan Santos Atahualpa, Túpac Amaru, who led indigenous revolutions during the 18th century, characters such as Teodomiro Gutiérrez known as Rumi Maqui, who led a peasant revolt in the Puno region in 1915, or Luis de la Puente Uceda and Héctor Béjar, who founded the Peruvian guerrillas of the MIR and ELN to fight against the continuation of the colonial system imposed by Creole landowners who owned large tracts of territory and at the same time had a legal system created by the state that gave them the power to exploit indigenous peasants in an extreme way, peasants such as Saturnino Huillca, who built one of the first agrarian cooperatives, under the name of Cooperativa de Ninamarca, and who was also part of the peasant uprising in the 1960s that finally took the land from the Creole landowners in the Cusco area, an achievement that was later institutionalized through the Agrarian Reform signed by Velasco Alvarado. In the last months of the calendar, fighters such as Santos Saavedra, president of the Central Unica de Rondas Campesinas CUNARC, or Jaime de La Cruz, currently imprisoned for protecting water and land by opposing the opening of the Tía María mine, or Remo Candia, social leader and peasant from Anta who was shot and killed during protests against the current dictatorship of Dina Boluarte in Peru, are portrayed.

The calendar, in addition to narrating the potato cultivation cycle and vindicating these historical figures, many of whom have been erased by colonial historiography, proposes understanding the struggles as cyclical processes that feed off each other.

The work takes as a reference the peasant calendar of Hans Sebald Beham, a German artist, whose work functioned as a tool of political propaganda during the German Peasants' War, also known as the Common Man's Revolution that began in 1524, this being one of the last radical peasant uprisings made by Europeans, which is possibly one of the last moments where the European identity still had a relationship with the land and far from the "conqueror ego" / "I conquer" that was imposed after the beginning of the colonial subjugation towards the territories of the global south by Europe.

2023 - Oil on canvas 5cm x 5cm