The presentation brings together five women artists, Inês Mendes Leal (1997, Lisbon), Vica Pacheco (1993, Oaxaca), Clara Imbert (1994, Paris), Pauline Guerrier (1990, Clamart), and Francisca Valador (1993, Lisbon), whose practices explore spirituality as a way of approaching what lies beyond immediate perception. Through video, sculpture, ceramics and painting, the booth unfolds as a constellation of different forms of knowledge, moving between natural phenomena, archaic forms, cosmology, ritual and vernacular traditions.

Inês Mendes Leal’s videos, developed in Chile’s Atacama Desert and recently presented in her solo exhibition Reaching for Fata Morgana at Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, investigate the fata morgana: a mirage that destabilises the boundary between physical reality and apparition. Vica Pacheco draws from pre-Columbian technologies, animist imaginaries and archaic forms to create ceramic works that oscillate between sculpture, instrument and ritual object. Clara Imbert’s sculptures evoke astronomical and astrological instruments, bringing together the observation of the cosmos with symbolic and esoteric systems of knowledge. Pauline Guerrier presents works developed through her research in Benin, engaging with the mystical figures of the Zangbeto and the relationship between ritual, ancestral knowledge and invisible forces. Francisca Valador’s intimate paintings focus on objects and fragments of nature, drawing from traditions, folklore and bruxarias from Northern Portugal. Together, the five artists approach the invisible not as an escape from reality, but as another way of perceiving and interpreting it.