Carlos Noronha Feio has a diverse practice that includes actions, performance, video, drawing, painting, photography and installation as research into cultural, local and global identity. He frequently adopts culturally significant images, locations and symbols as a form of creative interference with meaning, and demonstrates the almost arbitrary nature in which cultural significance is adopted or interpreted.

Noronha Feio uses improvisation, repetition and the conflicts of juxtaposition to explore issues of communicating with otherness and the inherent fluidity of meaning. His work is alternately charmingly seductive, profound and irreverently playful, yet ultimately a record of Noronha Feio’s attempts to explore and then to understand other perspectives and cultural viewpoints and how he might be able to connect with them.

Carlos Noronha Feio was born in Portugal in 1981. He completed an MRes (Masters of Research) Arts Practice at the University of the Arts London, an M.A Fine Art at Middlesex University, London and is currently undertaking a PhD at the Royal College of Art in London. He has exhibited and performed widely in the UK and abroad including the Whitechapel Gallery, London; the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow; Navicula Artis, Saint Petersburg; Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes; Colchester Art Centre, Colchester; Abrons Art Centre, New York; Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação EDP in Lisbon and Centro cultural Helio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro.