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(gestures and signs will carry on where language fails!)

a simple but entitled conversation with Carlos Noronha Feio

OPEN CLASS
DECEMBER 5TH OF 2024, 10AM
ROOM 7 EP1– ESAD.CR

On a normal day, and in a space other than a Fine Arts school, the synopsis of this conversation would be full of verbiage taken from books by Deleuze, or Foucault, some obscure references and eloquent phrases that would produce hierarchies, distances, between the artist, me, and the public, you. The tendency to make the work difficult to read, to construct, in an attempt to contextualise, to prove novelty, is a quasi-rule that we all inadvertently contribute to. In (gestures and signs will carry where language fails!) we will talk amongst ourselves about the work presented in a sincere way that is open to questions, possibly confusing at some points, too elaborate, but always open. It won’t be an artist statement or too many compound words. Rather, it will be a conversation that attempts to reflect on how a body of work, a community and a career are built.

Carlos Noronha Feio lives and works in Oeiras, London and Moscow. Through his multidisciplinary work, Carlos Noronha Feio analyses themes such as identity, nationalism and local and global culture. His practice seeks to question preconceived concepts of belonging by assimilating historical, geographical and political references and juxtaposing them to create his own compositions.
Noronha Feio obtained a PhD from the Royal College of Art London.
Selected solo exhibitions: Arkipélg, CNAD, Cape Verde; (sunsight!)/(sunclipse!); Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin (2022); Milk and Honey, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2024); A Matter of Trust, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2017); Oikonomia: A Matter of Trust, MNAC – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon (2015).
Group exhibitions include: Painting: Field of Observation Part II, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon (2021); The fabric of felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018); Variations Portugaises, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Meymac (2018); Futures, CAC Vilnius (2017); You Are Now Entering_________, CCA Londonderry/Derry (2012); and Image Wars, Abrons Art Centre, New York (2011).
His works were included in the publication ‘The Art of Not Making: The New Artist/Artisan Relationship’, as well as ‘Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition’, published by Thames & Hudson.