The artworks of Mario Soares can be perceived as descriptively raw; emanating a certain nomadism and the will to survive. This is evident not only in the textured plural materiality of his works, but the simultaneous complexities of migration as a primary thematic concern. Soares captures the experiences of the immigrant who must often contend with unsettling sensations of otherness, foreignness and the hope of invisibility amidst Afrophobia. The immigrant encounters not only the longing to belong culturally and in urban spatialities as when at home; but frequent bouts of nostalgia, only subdued through quiet personal remembrance. Soares deliberately depicts faceless portraits of Black African women selling fruit and vegetables, to reflect on their strength that has historically spearheaded not only households, but the multitude of precarious livelihoods in the informal economy, hereby relaying a deep appreciation.