Two vitrines house delicate preserved butterflies arranged against painted plaster surfaces, their iridescent wings frozen in a stillness that hovers between natural specimen and sculptural composition. Cardoso's work meditates on the paradox embedded in its title, *The Art of Disappearance*, as the act of preservation itself becomes a form of vanishing — the living creature surrendered so that its beauty might endure. The glass and metal cases frame this tension with clinical precision, evoking both the museum display cabinet and the reliquary.