At the culmination of a trilogy that investigated and wandered through the materiality of doubt — 'a fog machine e outros poemas para o teu regresso' (2021) — and the transcendence of the gaze in the face of opacity — 'radiografia' (2023) — 'Uma Linha de Luz na Água' is an attempt to dive into the philosophical depths of water, an unstable and diverse surface from which João Reis and Nuno Aroso — with an original text by Andreia C. Faria, lighting and scenography by Pedro Fonseca, and original music by Chiyoko Szlavnics and Nuno Aroso himself — trace a kind of constant flow of stimuli in which water is continuous movement: it washes, carries, crosses, curves around, invades, resists, fills. It carries with it a sediment of contamination and regeneration, of matricial force, of an endless appeal to dissolution, to the fluidity of memory.

Obscurity and transparency, reflections, dissonances, flashes of light and shadow — all in order to learn, time and again, how to walk upon water.

Created and performed by: João Reis and Nuno Aroso

Text: Andreia C. Faria

Music: Chiyoko Szlavnics and Nuno Aroso

Lighting and scenography: Pedro Fonseca / colectivo ac

Voice-over: Marta Félix

Photography: João Ribeiro

Sound production: Tomás Quintais

Production: Arte no Tempo

Supported by the Criatório programme of Ágora – Cultura e Desporto do Porto, E.M., S.A.