Tropical Trauma Misery Tour
Brazil / Italy
2026
Tropical Trauma Misery Tour is a speculative documentary project that unpacks the farcical spectacle and digital chaos surrounding Brazil’s far-right rise, while exposing global strategies of misinformation, and manipulation that define politics today. Taking the 2018 stabbing of Jair Bolsonaro as a catalyst, the work traces how a single event became a foundational myth—amplified by memes, and doctored images into a machinery of digital belief.
Through staged imagery, archival fragments, and meta-fictional strategies, the artist builds a theatre of political farce, revealing how populism blurs fact and fiction. Though rooted in Brazil, the project mirrors a global condition and invites viewers to question how to keep our eyes open when truth is constantly rewritten.
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About the artist
Born in 1989, in Brazil, Rafael Roncato is a visual artist, editor, and researcher living between Brazil and the Netherlands. With a background in photography, visual arts, and journalism, his work explores how images shape power, belief systems, and collective memory through semi-fictional narratives.