The work begins with the search for materials, which are industrial products and can be found in stores, cheap enough to be bought in large amounts - tape, plastic sheets, paint, labels. I look at the materials as to what they can become: the tape can become a brushstroke, the labels can become circles of color – the materials no longer obey the logic of use that was given to them in the universes they were intended for (the universe of office supplies, the universe of school) and become color, form, density, along with the reflections of the plastic sheets. Tiago Orfeu (b. 1993 in Leiria, PT) lives and works in Caldas da Rainha, where he is currently enrolled in a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts in ESAD.CR. His work was selected for the Concurso Prémio Nacional Arte Jovem (National Young Artist Prize) 2017, organized by Carpe Diem, and for the last two years he has regularly exhibited work in Caldas da Rainha.