Adventurous Times on the Island of Good Fortune is an exhibition open to multiple interpretations. On the one hand, the work refers to the exploitation of African and Indigenous peoples during the Portuguese colonisation of Brazil. On the other, it functions as a visual representation of the first inhabitants of the Island of Good Fortune: the Indigenous population and the Africans who arrived there after 1500.

Much has already been written about slavery and the slave trade. There are numerous sources describing the atrocities that legally took place on the Island of Good Fortune between approximately 1501 and 1889.

With this exhibition, Régis Gonçalves seeks to encourage people to speak out against this dehumanising form of discrimination. Slavery and the slave trade are not merely historical phenomena, they persist to this day. They are sustained through the denial of fundamental rights, the legal and social degradation of individuals, and the refusal to recognise their humanity. It is the ultimate form of exclusion. Outrage in response to this injustice forms an important point of departure for the exhibition. At the same time, the exhibition creatively explores broader social and cultural questions.

For Régis, art is a powerful platform for dialogue. Artworks are carriers of meaning, instruments through which difficult subjects can be addressed. In this exhibition, the focus is not only on empathy for the portrayed figures, but above all on acknowledging their history and challenging centuries-old prejudices.