TROPA MACACAAnimais Sintéticos EP

Very limited priEvate press.The new record by Tropa Macaca brings together two pieces, Animais Sintéticos and Aerossol, which were previously presented in an exhibition context, at gnration in Braga and at PADA in Barreiro, in the years 2022 and 2020, respectively. Both exhibitions, which took the title of the pieces, presented themselves as immersive installations that allied music to Joana da Conceição's paintings and videos. These two exhibitions are different pacts between the audible and the visible, and of both with the world.Here are the texts that accompanied the exhibitions, as well as links to visual report.Animais Sintéticos, gnration, Braga, 2022The exhibition Animais Sintéticos exists like a landscape, the kind we rememberwhen we are not there, alive, but suspended inside us. Enigmatic for us who createdthem, they accompany us, and if we imagine that one day they had a beginning, anoriginal referent outside of us, the time they have already spent with us forces us todoubt that this is so. Time has uprooted them, torn them from that place. We lookcloser, we reflect, we examine, we meditate, and when, as in a quantum leap, weoriginate what becomes there, we believe that it has always been there, that we havecrossed the glass, that we have come close to the mystery. It is a landscape like thisthat is offered in this exhibition. One of those that say more about us than about theworld, at a time when we already know what we already felt, that we are not theworld. An exercise in quantum paleontology, where the painting, the music, and themoving image are echoes of this place we inhabit, between promise and ruin. Aconfrontation, in the form of an elegy, in search of reconciliation.