In the exhibition Museu Mineiro (Mining Museum), Isabel Carvalho continues her research on the notion of "nuclear", especially on Portugal's historical involvement in the controversial debate about its uses and the effects of this energy in the international context. Combining real facts, past and present, and fiction, in June 2022 the artist presented in The Grotto (Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon) the first moment of this project, composed by the reading of a short story of her authorship and a sculpture, both entitled "The Grottos Community. New findings", where she approached the permanence of an American agency of seismographic detection of nuclear tests located in V. N. Gaia. She is now showing a body of work in Oporto, which takes as a starting point the claims of the population of Urgeiriça, in Viseu, for a Museum that does justice to their mining past. As has been evident in her career, the working process begins with a literary text that serves as a reference. This time, the text is a second short story by the author that has been written along with the construction of the works on display.

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