BELO CAMPOInformation
Belo Campo is an epiphyte space for contemporary cultures initiated and run by artist Adrien Missika, currently curated by Francisca Portugal and hosted by Galeria Francisco Fino. It is located in the basement of the gallery in a former wine cellar.
Belo Campo is a not-for-profit structure that aims to infuse and diffuse ideas, experiment with space and time, propose and question formats of contemporary cultures.
Founder and Director: Adrien Missika
Curator: Francisca Portugal
Artist
ExhibitionDate
Diogo PintoDiplomacia
24.01.2025 - 03.05.2025
Inês Mendes Leal and Maria Máximo
Force Majeure 28.11.2024 - 18.01.2025
Emmanuelle Lainé & Benjamin Valenza
Apenas nós dois02.05.2024 – 14.09.2024
Henrique Biatto curated by Ana Grebler
Canil17.02.2024 – 20.04.2024
Bruno Bogarim, Beatriz Neves Fernandes, Fox Maxy, Sofia Montanha, Mariana Tilly curated by Pedro Barateiro
Private Property13.12.2023 – 27.01.2024
Ana Manso, Geum Beollae 금벌레, Bernat Daviu, Ana Santos, Gonçalo Sena, Shreyas Karle श्रेयसकर्ले, Rosa Tharrats, André Romão and Hetamoé curated by Joana Escoval
Good evening. Do not attempt to adjust your radio. There is nothing wrong. 24.03.2023 – 17.06.2023
Kinga Kielczynska
Wild Type, Desired Property 05.12.2022 – 15.03.2023
Mané Pacheco
Bestas 15.09.2022 – 19.11.2022
Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld
Ironing Materialism 19.06.2021 – 06.01.2022
Hannah Rowan
Triple Point 18.09.2020 – 22.10.2020
Bless studio, Marta Costa Reis, Ligia Dias, Raquel Dias, Jorge Dias,Patrícia Domingues, Julien Fronsacq, Jenna Kaës, Katie Lagast, LRC designers, Vera Pinto
The Corner Piece 18.09.2020 - 15.01.2021
Carlos Monleón curated by Margarida Mendes
Gastrula Stage 03.05.2019 – 27.07.2019
Saâdane Afif, John M. Armleder, Kinga Kielczynska, Fabian Knecht, Isa
Melsheimer, Steve Paul Steven Paul, Mandla Reuter, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton curated by Adrien Missika
SAM M LUNG 15.02.2019 – 20.04.2019
David Horvitz
Água Viva 14.05.2018 – 28.07.2018
Diana Policarpo
Dissonant Counterpoint 27.01.2018 – 01.03.2018
Gina Folly
Follow You 11.11.2017 – 11.01.2018
Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld
Ironing Materialism19.06.2021
Based on the assumption that our western liberal understanding of the world is not sufficient to cope with the ever increasing global accumulation of problems, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld jestingly designs mysterious laboratories and treatments where solutions, healing and meaning are pursued and generated anew by radical interdisciplinary methods. Her labs materialize through installations, performances, sculptures, and instruments and she includes approaches from various fields in her practice, such as science, religion, mythology, magic, witchcraft and technology.
For Belo Campo, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld continues her investigation on context-specific potential for witchcraft. She conceived Ironing Materialism as a therapeutic plumbing device which connects the river flowing underneath the space, to melatonin, oxytocin, endorphine and morphine in order to create a treatment which can – according to homeopathic theory – help in gaining empathy.
Homeopathy is a medical system based upon the belief that the body can cure itself when its self-healing powers are stimulated. To achieve this, small amounts of natural substances are diluted in water; the mixture is shaken as part of a process called potentization, which in turn is supposed to release a “spirit-like” healing force from within the substance. Homeopaths operate in the belief that the lower the dose, the more powerful is the medicine. These homeopathic remedies no longer contain any molecules of the original substance, but rather their memory. Mnemosyne, goddess of memory and river of the underworld, was a deity celebrated in the cult of the Greek healing god – Asclepius: a prayer was said to Mnemosyne before the incubatio (temple sleep), asking for her guidance in remembering the visions arising while dreaming in the temple.
Directly from a hatch on the floor of Belo Campo, river water is pumped up from the underworld into the cave-like space. It flows through a tubing system winding around a horizontally diverted dance pole, positioned to invite the visitor into a limbo before entering the therapy-cave. Two hanging funnels release globuli of homeopathically potentized maternal milk into a steam iron station which serves as the heart of the quackery tool. Used here as a fog machine, it evaporates a mist with the mixed ingredients for the treatment. Through this installation, the artist is sharing her maternal matter as a homeopathetic impulse.
May Mnemosyne help you remember your visions.