Tamara Alves (b. 1983, Portugal) is a visual artist and illustrator, currently based in Lisbon. She has always been interested in the kind of work that is inserted into the world, fascinated with the street aesthetic and urban context. Alves has been weaving a narrative that celebrates in a raw, poetic way, the primeval vitality of strong sensations. Based on the idea that our instincts are what defines us, the artist invokes a universe of (female) human and animal figures in interaction with the natural landscape and objects imbued with a strong symbolic charge that invite us to embrace feelings as a wild and untamed driving force.