My Head is my only House unless it rains: Carlos Noronha Feio

Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, Carlos Noronha Feio
Mulberry Tree Press, London, 2023
Design by David Norman
Printed by Aldgate Press
128 pages
ISBN: 978-1-9160949-5-6

Carlos Noronha Feio’s broad, often itinerant practice includes actions, performance, video, drawing, painting, photography, collecting, sound, rug works and installation. He manipulates, juxtaposes or re-sites media as poetical research into cultural, local and global identity. His re-inscription of often iconic images and symbols seeks to invite altered readings of culture at large while demonstrating the arbitrary nature of interpretation. This book sets out to uncover some aspects combines a range of writings by the artist and the curators, alongside images of artworks and detailed documentation of the gallery installation. References to David Hickey, Marcel Broodthaers, Lucy Lippard and Walter Benjamin help situate the peregrinations of the artist and allude to his practice. The artist’s own texts take the form of a fragmented memoir of a practice, an extensive account that was borne out of the authors’ request for brief annotations of works from the artist’s collection of cultural artifacts – including coins, spoons, musket shot, textiles and elephants of various shapes and sizes.