"Tavares' practice is an homage to the Austral and Atlantic Africa, which was constantly developing in exchange with the Americas. Islands like São Tomé and Príncipe were used as logistical centers, test laboratories and production sites and thus became a marketplace for ideas and identities in the "Black Atlantic". With this understanding, Tavares is inline with Paul Gilroy's thesis that the cultural history of the African Diaspora is not simply African, American or European, but was created through the brutally enforced trade between these spaces across the Atlantic." - ArtCo Galerie, 2024