In her current project, À Volta do Barro (Around Clay), Nunes delves into Cape Verde’s pottery communities to explore and honor their ceramic traditions. These ancestral practices—carefully safeguarded and passed down through generations of women—represent a living heritage that interlaces personal narratives with collective memory, forming a cultural continuum deeply rooted in place and identity.

Through immersive artist residencies, Nunes collaborates with master potters from Trás de Monti (Santiago) and Rabil (Boavista), engaging in an intensive dialogue with their knowledge, techniques, and creative processes. À Volta do Barro moves beyond geographical boundaries, connecting these practices with contemporary diasporic experiences through a series of international ceramic workshops. The first of these, held in Lisbon in 2024, became a platform for artistic exchange and cultural reconnection, inviting diverse communities to engage with clay as a shared language and a vessel for memory and transformation.

The project is realized in close collaboration with curator and architect Ricardo Barbosa Vicente, master potters Isabel Sanches (Trás de Monti – Santiago) and Maria Alves (Rabil – Boavista), and the Municipal Councils of Lisbon and Sal Rei (Boavista – Cape Verde), and the support of Portuguese sculptor and Ethnoceramics professor Virginia Fróis.