Transmitter and Receiver

Debut talent Raoul Fernandes’s first offering is Transmitter and Receiver, a masterful and carefully depicted exploration of one’s relationships with oneself, friends, memories, strangers and technology.

The three parts of this collection are variations building on a theme–at times lonely, sometimes adoring, but always honest. Wider areas of contemplation–the difficulty of communication, the ever-changing symbolism of language and the nature of human interaction in the age of machines–are explored through colloquial scenes of the everyday: someone eats a burger in a car parked by the river ( Grand Theft Auto: Dead Pixels ), a song plays on the radio as a man contemplates suicide ( Car Game ), and a janitor works silently once everyone else has gone ( After Hours at the Centre For Dialogue ).

offers loneliness and longing hand-in-hand with affection and understanding: The last assembly instruction is always you reading this. A machine / that rarely functions, but could never without you.