Details

First Name

Andréa

Last Name

Tavares

Username

andreat

Country of residence

United States (US)

Statement

Statement

Drawing is the central core of my practice . Making marks that has meaning, collecting meaningful marks, giving meaning to any founding marks. I understand drawing as language, therefore as device, that allows me to produce and collect images from the inside of their own tradition. Through this device I investigate the occidental culture as it´s barbaric, colonialist, built to satisfy the white male gaze of the archive and its disposal of memory within all its ambiguities and passions. My process is dedicated to make images breaking free from that tradition. As a south american women I stole from the tradition, and give my time to produce a diferent ground for art practice.

Drawing is a fascinating device though which memory is always in the making, drawing is a verb and not the memory itself. It´s a process in which memory is made. A drawing is a glimpse of the memory in the process of its own making. A way to write fiction, so to speak.