I believe to have been the daily training, the symbiosis between the most difficult impressions to evoke and the direct contact with his work, what allowed Luís Soares to give vent to his instincts acting as a pure transmitter of the spontaneous sequences that his brain, in psychosomatic interlacing, infuses him. This automatism, calligraphic in a way, is the base of the existence of his own symbolic platform, of anthropomorphic traces, most of the times evoking that human figurativism and other vestiges - past or virgin destiny - of transcendental dwellings.
The line, semi-open and always extendable, plays a necessary ludic role in order to create the appropriate atmosphere that feeds the mysterious charm that his works radiate, whether the paintings are ceramics or sculptures, creative modalities with their diversity of technical particularities but possessing a common illusion.

Its path is marked by a tactile sensation, intercommunicating, in its palpable form, with colour. Colour that appears explosive and primary, flat or splashed, paying natural worship to the original existence. ,

Luís Soares is directly connected to the African roots through his collective experiences in Mozambique, taking the anecdote to the limit of the contradictions between social encounters and behavioural norms. Thus, totemic masks, legends of the black race and aspects of their daily life transformed into historical moments, the sexual rites, the points of contact with the white civilization, etc. succeed one another thematically and are reborn evocative in the drawings, vases and ceramic panels, embodied in a platonic surrealism of indeliberation but with a charge of external identification on the part of the artist.

In the sculpture, materialised in bronze, without completely losing that character, he sacrifices dynamism to expressionist roundness and aplomb. The tactile perception that emanated from the two-dimensional work is, in the sculptural process, restrained by its triviality. The surface concavities here conceal the moderating hands, as if it were the mark of time that passes over the pieces, endowing them with all their expectant, consubstantial content.

Luís Soares is synonymous of universality and understanding; his life is a close daily consecration; his work and his creative exuberance denounce it.