Truth (excerpt)
Video, 2020
In these times where so much of what we hear and read are lies, when two pillars of civilization – journalism and science – are being increasingly discredited and undermined, Truth is meant as encouragement for individual scrutiny of information, of validation of its source and content, shining a light on whatever needs exposure and ultimately for a build-up of a precious kind of human bond: trust.
Milky Ways (excerpt)
Audio, 2021
Rafael Toral's output in the last 15 years has been focused on action, attention, vulnerability and decision-making. As he enters a third phase in his carrer, it now appears there is a need for more reflection, space, slowing down, backing off and being quiet. Musical manifestations of that idea thake on a different shape, actually with common traces to the earlier 15-year period. Milky Ways is a performance piece for a moving audience, much like an installation, without narrative or structure. An electric guitar is used to slowly build drone layers of harmonic variations.
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End. Linear progression and the habit of guessing – the end. In everyday circularities, end and beginning coincide. Among them, the limit. In the geography of a country with sea, the beach. At a specific point on that boundary, the lighthouse.
The headlight. Since land a long way. Drill the net, sit on the base of the tower. Cigarette, sea, infinity. From the sea a long way, a coordinate, a point – pay attention! or calm down at last. Continuity in intermittency.
João Castro
