In 2019, the Filipino artist, performer and activist Carlos Celdran had to go into exile in Spain. He fled to Madrid to escape his country's judicial system, which had resorted to a colonial-era law to convict him of ‘offence to religious feelings’ following a performance-protest in Manila Cathedral. The Filipino national hero José Rizal had also lived for a time in Madrid, 120 years earlier, and Celdran set out to initiate a project following his trail through the Spanish capital. In this project, the lives of two Filipinos in Madrid, separated by more than a century and united by so many other things, intersect. Rizal returned to Manila in 1896 and shortly afterwards was executed by the colonial authorities, at the behest of the clergy. Celdran was never able to return to Manila, having died suddenly in exile in October 2019.

Camino Rizal is a tribute to Rizal and Celdran by friends, acquaintances and family of the Filipino artist that recreates and resumes the project that Carlos Celdran was unable to complete. It is a video-performance based on the format of a guided tour through Rizal's Madrid. During the tour of the Rizal Road, following the same reflective, ironic and irreverent scheme that characterised Carlos Celdran's performances, the audience participated in an itinerary through the milestones of a history that, in reality, neither belongs to the past nor has it ended yet.