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In 2019, Petra Florence spearheaded the rediscovery and recontextualization of the 'Lisbon Silver Hoard', a cache of 17th-century Portuguese ecclesiastical objects long mislabeled as decorative reproductions. Her forensic analysis of solder composition and tool-mark stratigraphy proved their authenticity, prompting the Vatican Museums to revise their colonial-era acquisition records. She doesn’t just label artifacts; she listens to the silences between them, the gaps where trade routes, suppressed devotions, or unrecorded artisans left faint but legible traces. Her exhibition 'Fragile Provenance' (2022) used ultraviolet reflectography not as a gimmick, but as narrative scaffolding: revealing erased inscriptions on a 1930s Bauhaus textile that named its Jewish weaver, erased during Nazi inventory audits. Petra’s curation resists nostalgia; it treats each object as a witness with contradictory testimony, demanding ethical precision over aesthetic comfort.
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