Carvalho's interest in memory and remembrance was triggered by the complexity of his family story - a multiracial family made of Angolans and Portugueses. Carvalho shares the ancestors of two distinct world geographies with distinct epistemological and belief systems, and its based on them that he complicates the notions of autobiographical and collective remembrance. Love, shamanism, colonialism and exile stories of his family are some of the elements he departs from to understand what constitutes today's societies economy of remembrance, and how to create another memorial culture that uses alternative stories and forms of remembrance to fight against injustices and forms of violence that result from authoritarian forms of power, inequality and racism.

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His work examines public life and archives, autobiographical memory and collective memory, with a focus on acts of remembering and their biological, cultural and social influences. He uses performance art as a process-based practice and a tool to examine representational memories that are embedded in different urban and private settings, specially the ones that still commemorate colonialism and Imperialism at a cost of indigenous peoples exploitation and oppression. In an attempt to interrupt the ways offitial narratives create an idea and experience of the past, and with the objective of finding stories that can counterpoint the hegemony of history with a capital H,  Carvalho collaborated with distinct peoples, communities and groups worldwide, where he uses art an collaboration to find "memory", to bring to surface non western perspectives and technologies of knowledge and to complicate what constitutes today's notions of collective remembrance.

Carvalho holds a Master degree in performing arts from HZT/ UDK Berlin and a Master degree in Visual Arts from ESAD, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. He showcase his work and collaborated with communities in 5 continents.