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
Hannah Rowan
Triple Point18.09.2020 – 22.10.2020
Triple Point is a solo exhibition by British artist Hannah Rowan whose practice reflects on the contrast between constant, fast-paced human activity and the much slower rhythms of geological processes. Her work, often inspired by living nature, not only observes these natural systems; it re- embodies them.
Evaporation, condensation and precipitation, Rowan recreates ephemeral natural systems in a continued state of becoming to reflect on their fragility. She explores notions of fluidity,
transformation and interconnectivity to speak of the existential threat and anxiety surrounding the climate crisis in connection to other cosmological forces such as technology and data overload. Informed by the Hydrofeminism of Astrida Neimanis,* she invites us to reflect on our presence as and with bodies of water. To slow down, engage and connect to wider ecological systems.
For her first solo exhibition in Lisbon, Rowan presents a new body of work that captures the moving quality of water, frequently between states of matter. By building on the existing attributes of Belo Campo, an old underground wine cellar, the exhibition aims to simulate a slippery groundwater dependent ecosystem, comparable to subterranean wetlands and caves dripping sounds of water permeating through lithic surfaces.
The first two rooms hold Flowing as Frozen a glass and ice condensation piece. The ice placed inside the hand blown glass vessel begins as a solid crystal, melts into a flowing liquid, before cooling and condensing within the glass amorphous solid.
Resonating within the cavernous acoustics of the second chamber, the video Anatomy of Ice is the documentation of a performance Rowan developed in Svalbard during the Arctic Circle Residency (2019), an artist-led research expedition. With a hydrophone submerged in the ocean, she was able to capture the loss of ancient air bubbles that once trapped in the ice became frozen archives of the atmosphere.
In the third room, the atmospheric conditions of Belo Campo shape the material transmutations for Saturation Point, a sweating salt and copper mist piece echoing the continuous circulation of water in the Earth-atmosphere system. In return, the steel sculpture, scaled to the artist’s body, exaggerates the humidity of the room by staging alchemical reactions between materials acting upon each other.
While navigating below ground, the viewer encounters water merging through physical states. Each work amplifies the humid and moist atmospheric conditions of the three adjoining chambers, and blurs the boundaries of the three main phases of the water transformation cycle — solid, liquid and gas. Such phases can coexist at the same time if a certain degree of temperature and pressure is reached. A unique combination that scientists call: Triple Point.
* Intersectional feminist scholar, author of Bodies of Water, Posthuman Feminist Phenomelogy (2017). Bloomsbury Academic.