Platforms 2020: Public Works is a monthly series of temporary public art projects that presented from June 2020 until the end of December 2020.

These artworks were selected through an open call inviting Vancouver-based artists to share projects that they have been working on that respond to the circumstances of living during a pandemic and critical time of change.

The public art program was launched on transit shelters, billboards, and video screens throughout the city.

Tafui’s striking work We Are One (2020) presented on a billboard at Helmcken near Granville from December 7, 2020 to January 3, 2021. Tafui’s practice includes painting, printmaking, wood carving, and textile art, the interconnectedness between these disciplines explored through a restructuring of approaches to minimal mark-making.

The artist explains: “My work is inspired by the idea that ‘we belong to each other’ and through the understanding of our histories and shared experiences we become united, as people, as cultures, and to the earth.”