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Time will always be a concern or subject matter in art. In both solo shows presented by Underdogs at Urban Art Fair 2024, Tamara Alves and PichiAvo deal with that notion in their particular - and very remarkable - ways. In her paintings, Portuguese Tamara Alves (b. 1983) depicts the willingness to stop time in a fast-paced world, a duality she believes almost every human being faces today. While the portrayed constantly transforms, her portrait is a frozen image of the past—a statue, a monument, a glimpse of what will never be again. The Spanish duo PichiAvo, which consists of Pichi (b. 1977) …