The artist investigates, with a special focus on photography, personal and institutional archives of specific communities, which she presents in exhibitions and through richly illustrated catalogues. In recent years, she has been working on the memory of Portuguese emigrant communities in the United States.

One of these exhibitions (at Ashpit 8, Museu de Electricidade, 2011), entitled New World Parkville, resulted in a catalogue highly praised by critics.

In Mais Alto (which means Higher) her proposal addresses a transcendental issue in contemporary art related to historical questions of post-colonialism.

Through interviews and material collections, MC literally portrays a group of female paratrooper nurses from the Portuguese army serving in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.

Scenes from their professional and daily lives in Africa, moments of work and leisure.

Once again, the aim is to record, recover, and preserve the individual and collective memories of a little-studied and little-known professional group.

The catalogue brings together texts by Margaria Correia, Irene Flunser Pimentel and João Pinharanda, alongside a selection of images that will be on display.