Born in 1994, in Rio de Janeiro, the city where he lives and works, Tiago is a visual artist with a degree in Product Design from PUC-Rio. His background includes working as a carpenter and stints in the studios of artists such as Daniel Senise and Angelo Venosa. Since 2022, he has been Charles Watson’s assistant and also works as a freelance photographer.

His research is built upon the use of commonplace materials—wood scraps, fragments, papers, fabrics, wires, ropes, tapes, nails—elements that carry histories, marks of time, and a silent presence. However, it’s not about discussing precarity. Tiago is interested in the potential contained within what is frequently ignored. These materials are not chosen for nostalgia or provocation, but for their ability to reveal minimal gestures, spatial subtleties, and fragilities that usually escape a hasty glance. They are materials not born to be art, but which, when displaced from their original context, gain a new place in the perceptive hierarchy.

His work is driven by an ethics of process and transparency. There’s a preference for what hesitates, for what seems unfinished, or at times stumbles with a certain grace. It is precisely in this displacement—or even discomfort—that the artist’s interest lies. Often, his works appear timid in space, insinuating themselves more than imposing. There is humor, yes, but also a constant poetic tension: an attempt to reorganize our relationship with the visible and with what we deem important to perceive.

Tiago Cavaliere arrives at the gallery as part of a generation attentive to the potentials of the imperceptible and committed to more subtle—and, precisely for that reason, profound—ways of relating to the world.