Since 2014, I have been developing a visual ethnography at the site of a future international airport in Cusco, Peru. I examine how the arrival of an international airport materializes through constructed environments, landscapes and other forms of cultural expression, even years before the construction of the airport begins. In the collection of videos, I have been conceiving the airport as a form of global communication and an expression of neocolonialism in a rural Quechua town where colonization has been materializing since pre-Inca times.

I call the project Aeropuerto. Aeropuerto is a visual archive of objects and places in transition. It is the material to find visual answers to questions and experiment with methods of research. It is also the memories of the Singona-Pumaccahua family with whom I live during my visits. Aeropuerto is a threshold for discussion on the arrival of an international airport and the economic development it promises—a seemingly linear process that is happening very fast.