Enchantment

18 Jun 2026

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Resulting from a three-week residency in the house where Mísia lived — a place of creation and memory —, the original performance by the duo Beatriz Albuquerque & Albuquerque Mendes will be presented to the public on 18 June 2026, the fado singer's birth date.

The work is an invitation to attentive listening, affective presence and a re-encounter with the power of enchantment, based on Mísia's artistic legacy. Through living archive practices, the artists rescue and transform objects, sounds and images from the singer's intimate universe, activating them in a performative space that is both poetic and political, a manifesto of resistance.

The duo, representing two different generations of artists, has created and performed in various performances, such as Escrito no Futuro, Auditório de Serralves; Magic Circle, Vila Velha Museum; Sombras, Improvisações, Coliseu Porto; Changes, Galeria Nuno Centeno and Love me tender, Festival Trama, Museu Serralves.

 

Photo: Augusto Brázio

 

Beatriz Albuquerque

An artist and performer with an international career, Beatriz Albuquerque holds a PhD from Columbia University (New York), with training from FBAUP and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been honoured with the Myers Art Prize, the Bienal de Cerveira Revelation Prize, and the Ambient Series (Chicago). 

Albuquerque Mendes

A key figure in performance art in Portugal, he began his journey at the Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra and was a founding member of the group Puzzle. His work intertwines ritual, painting and performance, having been recognised with the Nadir Afonso, Amadeu Sousa Cardoso and Unión Fenosa prizes.

 

Information
Enchantment (Encantamento)

18 June 2026
Rua de Santa Catarina, 9, top floor, Lisbon
Time: 4:30 pm 
Free admission, subject to capacity