DAY 8 | JULY 27, 2025
MARIA DO MAR + OLIVIER PERRIQUET – CONCERT
Maria do Mar is a violinist, performer, teacher, and eclectic composer with a transdisciplinary trajectory. Her creative practice explores the convergences and divergences between classical music, alternative teaching methods, experimental and improvised music, cinema, theatre, dance, literature, visual arts, curatorship, and activism. In her work, she seeks a vast universe with blurred aesthetic boundaries, opening transversal possibilities without creative limits.
Olivier Perriquet works at the intersection of several fields of the visual arts, including experimental cinema, expanded cinema, and media archaeology, whose histories, forms, and operating modes are implicit references for his practice. With a particular affinity for vision and optics, he designs devices that expose their own conditions of appearance and reception, offering unusual experiences of time and space.
Together, they explore synesthetic experiences at the crossing of sound and visual languages, seeking to expand the boundaries of perception. Through the fractures between technology and critical thought, between history, contemporaneity, and post-contemporaneity, they unveil new territories of expression and knowledge.
BEATRIZ SOUSA – FILM PRESENTATION
Mesa Posta (Set Table) is a short film that reveals the violence of a life through the simplicity of the gestures of those who embody it. The narrative unfolds through the act of setting the table, where habits, beliefs, and intimate moments become visual metaphors of a story. The brutality of everyday life is contrasted with the beauty and delicacy of the objects that compose the scene, turning the table into a space of revelation and confrontation.
Beatriz de Sousa, born in Leiria, studied Cinema at the University of Beira Interior and has distinguished herself as a filmmaker, artist, and activist. Her debut film, Mesa Posta (2022), was selected for several national and international festivals. In parallel, she created Um Bom Par de Ovários (2022), a multidisciplinary installation investigating harassment and sexual abuse. Beyond cinema, her work extends to writing and to exploring the body as a form of expression, reflecting on women’s rights and promoting a critical and committed artistic approach.
