Until a few decades ago, the print culture in Peru formulated the big questions about individual destiny within a broader framework where politics functioned as everyday language. The apparent separation between mass culture and politics came later, during the 1990s, when the cultural industry shifted towards creating a media spectacle that actively sought to block reflection on the structural processes where experience takes place.

Benjamín Cieza Hurtado presents here a series of paintings based on Tu Destino, a magazine that combined astrological orientations, paranormal news, advice for everyday life, occultist theories, and various commercial and cultural advertisements from Peru in the late 1970s.

“Love According to Your Sign,” “The Best Contraceptive: Your Mind,” “Those Who Heal by Faith” are some headlines of this magazine that presented itself as a means to find light in the unknown.

As he has developed in previous projects, in “Las fuerzas y el equilibrio” Benjamín approaches…