Tiago Madeira is a Portuguese visual artist, based in Paris.

A photographer and a sculptor, Tiago Madeira is fascinated by the evolution of the contemporary world, with a predilection for political, geopolitical, social and economic issues, and the repercussions that arising when it is associated with the new and disruptive phenomenon of digital: his reflection and artistic implementation are as inspired as they are nourished by them. The influence and value of communication, in all its modern and generational forms, are simultaneously underlying, omnipresent and primordial: a personal quest for truth, in a world saturated with codes, information, knowledge and experience, contradictions and fake news.

Tiago is a transformer. Through observation, interpretation, investigation, questioning, he converts digital raw material into art. His process starts with in-depth research through vast volumes of databases, graphics, historical information – findings that he translates with different softwares into a new form, his artistic interpretation. Painting, collage, engraving are techniques of choices: they subsequently lead to photography, the last recording that Tiago creates and presents as his final work. From digital to digital, from research to discovery, from heterogeneous information to photography.

Trained in sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon, completed with a Master's degree in Architecture and Art of Ephemeral Spaces from the ETSAB-UPC University in Barcelona, he has worked as an architectural photographer and photographic and digital archivist at prestigious agencies  and cultural institutions (including Dominique Perrault Architecture in Paris, Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of A Coruña in Spain).

His professional activity, at the crossroads of photography, archives and digital, is a driving force, a fundamental and inseparable source of convergences with his artistic activity.

His creations have been presented in a series of  individual and collective exhibitions, among which:

2010 - Reflexarte, Museo de Arte Contemporâneo Gás Natural Fenosa, A Coruña.

2009 - Arte Lisboa - Feria de Arte Contemporânea FIL, represented by Sopro Gallery, Lisbon.

2007 - Balêlatina, Basel

2007 - Video Killed the Painting, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow,

2007 - Videóvaka, galleriBOX, Akureyri, Iceland

2006 - The Power of the Chair, Sopro Gallery, Lisbon

2004 - ...Sem Pavor, curated by Bruno Marchand, Évora