René Tavares

The work of René Tavares moves comfortably between fiction, orality, and memory to comment with humour and irony on the processes of construction of what we understand as History, culture, and heritage, and which we validate as such. At the same time, it speculates on alternative narratives to what the past was and to what the future might be. Comprising two painting-sculptures ('Carruagem lusa' [Portuguese carriage] and 'Pía mú / Olha p’ra mim / Look at me'), and one painting-projection ('Wash station'), the project entitled 'Estado Novo do Atlântico' [new...