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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
Alice dos ReisHer Dark Materials10.10.2026 – 21.11.2026
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
Alice dos ReisHer Dark Materials10.10.2026 - 21.11.2026
For the past few years, Alice dos Reis has been interested in the ways we describe and ascribe meaning to our ever-questioning of what lies beyond Earth. At times focusing on the physical aspects of what awaits beyond – such as outer space, and others on more spiritual aspects of the otherworldly, such as cults, and what constructs and drives belief. Working with film and tapestry, she has used narrative, both personal and fictional, as a means to consider and confuse these questions, where they can be explored rather than resolved.
Her Dark Materials is a performance piece, staged as an encounter between two characters: a professed nun who happens to be a skilled archer, and a UFO. Both these figures have appeared ambiguously intertwined in Alice’s recent works, as if involved in a cat-and-mouse chase. Previously, the image of the UFO was a projection of our anxieties around rapid modernization and technological development.
Now, this twenty-first century god is rendered as an embroidered archery target the nun aims and shoots at repeatedly. Staged theatricality as a recorded broadcast of an archery practice with camp and pop culture nuances, the performance further complexifies the dynamic between the two subjects : on the one hand the nun embodies a striker, but her aim (object of both fear and fascination) is ever elusive, escaping her advances and her understanding.
The title borrows from Philip Pullman’s fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials (who in turn borrowed his title from John Milton’s classic of religious disobedience Paradise Lost), in which a rebellion against an authoritative God unfolds across parallel universes. Drawing on this favourite of her childhood, the artist emulates a moment of tension in which humanity faces anxieties over truth and belief when met with the possibility of other cognitions capable of bending the mysterious materials from which creation itself is made.
Alice dos Reis and Francisca Portugal
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