Andréa Tavares

Drawing is the central core of my practice thinking process. 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, from whom they can´t break free. Through these device I investigate the occidental culture (barbaric, colonialist, built to satisfy the white male gaze) of the archive and its disposal of memory within all its ambiguities and passions.
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.

Andréa Tavares is an artist and educator from São Paulo, Brazil. She works with the graphic languages as drawing and printmaking as means to create a friction between collective and individual memory. Her work has beem showed in museums and galleries in Brazil and abroad. Her last show, Anxiety Studio, in Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade (São Paulo), presented almost one thousand works on paper, part of na extensive archive practice that brought together personal memories and social history.
She is a professor of Drawing, Graphic Languages and Teaching Practices at FAAP (Armando Alvares Penteado School), in the faculty of visual arts an Coordinator of the postgraduate course (Latu Senso)Contemporary Artistic Practices at the same insitution.
She is also one of the coordinators of ILAP, at uncoolartist plataforma..
She has an bachelor degree on Fine Arts from USP (University of São Paulo), as well a MFA and a PHD on visual poetics by the same institution.

Main Exhibits
2019
Anxiety Room (individual), curated by Galciani Neves. Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, SP.
2018
Library Florest, curated by Galciani Neves. Ribeirão Preto Museum of Art, Ribeirão Preto, SP.
2017
Ghosts (individual). Curated by Ana Maria Maia, São Paulo Cultural Center, CCSP, SP
2016
us through the cracks, Galeria Casa da Xiclet, São Paulo, SP. ARTE LONDRINA 4 – TEMPORALITIES, OVERLAYS AND DELETIONS, curated by Cauê Alves, DAP, Londrina, PR.
2014
Project Múltiplo, curatedby Paula Brorghi, Red Bull Station, São Paulo, SP.
2013
Contemporary Printmaking workshop,, SESC Vila Mariana, São Paulo, SP.
2012
100 Souvenirs. Ponto Ateliê, SPestampa, São Paulo, SP
2010
Printed Page. (Individual), Gravura Brasileira Gallery, São Paulo, SP
2008
Silence. (individual) Cinesol, Gallery. São Paulo, SP.