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Flat-Pack Native and Other Pacific Constructions CARLOS NORONHA FEIO Flat-Pack Native and Other Pacific Constructions Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa 16 de Março a 27 de Abril 2013 | From March 16 to April 27 2013 Imagens da exposição Exhibition views Imagens da exposição Exhibition views Imagens da exposição Exhibition views Imagens da exposição Exhibition views Imagens da exposição Exhibition views Imagens da exposição Exhibition views Por mais que andasse à volta com flat-packs e chaves universais, a única constante era o som do mar | 2013 Parafusos Z1, chaves de parafusos z1, 3 radios, broca 2.5mm, 3 pen-drives, Viroc Bolt Z1, screwdrivers Z1, 3 radios, 2.5 mm drill bit, Viroc | Som do Mar em São Francisco, Som do Mar em Waiheke island, Som do Mar em Díli Sound of Sea in São Francisco, Sound of Sea in Waiheke island, Sound of Sea in Díli Por mais que andasse à volta com flat-packs e chaves universais, a única constante era o som do mar | 2013 Parafusos Z1, chaves de parafusos z1, 3 radios, broca 2.5mm, 3 pen-drives, Viroc Bolt Z1, screwdrivers Z1, 3 radios, 2.5 mm drill bit, Viroc | Som do Mar em São Francisco, Som do Mar em Waiheke island, Som do Mar em Díli Sound of Sea in São Francisco, Sound of Sea in Waiheke island, Sound of Sea in Díli Plant Life of the Pacific World series Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif X | 2013 Conversation on the Heath | Figure 95: Lecanopteris Carnosa Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil Carlos Noronha Feio e Alexander Garcia-Düttmann Colagem fotográfica digital s/ papel Hahnemühle photo rag 500gsm and gouache on Hahnemühle Monet canvas print | 77 x 90 cm C type print in Crystal archival fujifilm collage mounted on hahnemuhle photo rag 500gsm paper | 29,5 x 36 cm Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif VIII | 2013 Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil and gouache on Hahnemühle Monet canvas print | 126 x 90 cm Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif V | 2013 Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil and gouache on Hahnemühle Monet canvas print | 76 x 50 cm Native People of the Pacific World:dispositif IV | 2013 Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil and gouache on Hahnemühle Monet canvas print | 50 x 58 cm Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif VI | 2013 Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil and gouache on digital in Hahnemühle Monet canvas | 144,5 x 90 cm Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif I | 2013 Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil and gouache on Hahnemühle Monet canvas print |130 x 90 cm Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif II | 2013 Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil and gouache on Hahnemühle Monet canvas print | 73 x 50 cm Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif III | 2013 Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil and gouache on Hahnemühle Monet canvas print | 110 x 90 cm Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif VII | 2013 Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil and gouache on Hahnemühle Monet canvas print | 70 x 50 cm Figure 166: Lippia nodiflora Figure 28: Sophora tomentosa Uncatalogued Species 10 Figure 210: Durio zibethinus Figure 48: Scaevola frutescens Plant Life of the Pacific World series Colagem fotográfica digital s/ papel Hahnemühle photo rag 500gsm C type print in Crystal archival fujifilm collage mounted on hahnemuhle photo rag 500gsm paper | 29,5 x 36 cm Uncatalogued Species 8 Figure 108: Dipteris conjugata Figure 205: Manihot esculenta Figure 100: Amorphophallus campanulatus Figure 241: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Plant Life of the Pacific World series Colagem fotográfica digital s/ papel Hahnemühle photo rag 500gsm C type print in Crystal archival fujifilm collage mounted on hahnemuhle photo rag 500gsm paper | 29,5 x 36 cm Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif IX | 2013 Óleo e guache sobre impressão digital em tela Hahnemühle Monet Oil and gouache on Hahnemühle Monet canvas print | 37 x 29,5 cm O Registration Act Sul Africano de 1950 à serie. Esta explosão de cores e de formas creation of inconscient divisions which are only by closer look and that comes from an atribuía o termo “de cor” a todas as pessoas vegetalistas escondem um facto histórico very significant in behaviours, cultures and intention to show a relationship between the real que não se integravam num grupo social chocante e real que é observado apenas por living not only regarding territory issues. By and the constructed by the use of particular forms definido, expondo não apenas uma visão um olhar mais atento. Descobre também uma demonstrating how the labor system states and of masking the reality that is presented here in a centrista mas também uma vontade de vontade de mostrar uma relação entre o real e creates notions as nation, ethnicity and race pleasant and seductive way. ‘Native People of the prossecução hierárquica, abrindo um problema o construído designadamente pela utilização this article reveals also how they can be used as Pacific World’ creates two layers of different contexts de classificação/desclassificação racial. Este de formas de mascaramento do real que aqui é control tools. in which color and trace lines are combined episódio, enunciado em “The Construction of apresentado de um modo agradável e sedutor. with photos of ‘native’ people of the Pacific. The Peoplehood: Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity” de “Native People of the Pacific World” cria duas For the first time on display at Carlos Carvalho, exhibition also presents a sound installation ‘ Immanuel Wallerstein, contribuiu para que este camadas de contextos diferentes em que a Carlos Noronha Feio will present three series Do fundo do mar pacífico não se percebiam as sociólogo mostrasse, no mesmo texto, como cor, a representação de linhas institucionais of recent work which help him to explore diferenças!’ that shows a relationship between the é que estas circunscrições sociais reflectem e o traço livre são conjugados com imagens questions about territory, race and borders. first two series. construções inconsistentes e que se alteram de povos “nativos” do Pacífico. A exposição ‘Plant Life of the Pacific World’ appropriates We may say that one of the common traces e transmutam conforme o peso das relações apresenta ainda a instalação de som “Do visual effects of images of nuclear explosion between these three series is a practice of laborais para com as conveniências económicas fundo do mar pacifico não se percebiam as converting them into compositions that make appropriation of images with a strong historical do sistema capitalista. Esta vinculação a um diferenças!” que mostra relação entre as duas up a mixture of vegetable and floral shapes. significance and identity in order to build on conjunto de interesses que advêm de estruturas primeiras séries. This body of work follows a kind of botanical these and with these, a new discourse and a new de poder que sedimentam as desigualdades e Poderemos afirmar que um dos pontos nomenclature assigned by the American thought. as assimetrias, enuncia várias situações ligadas à comuns a estas três series é uma prática Botanist ED Merrill to natural plants of the criação de divisões inconscientes mas marcadas de apropriação de imagens com um forte territories that comprise the Pacific Islands, and de forma evidente, em comportamentos, significado histórico e identitário de modo a that we could find in a book that gives the title culturas e vivências que não dizem respeito construir, com estas e sobre estas, num novo to the series. This explosion of colors and shapes apenas a situações territoriais, mas que discurso e um novo pensamento. hide a shocking historical fact that is observed demonstram a forma como o sistema laboral enuncia e cria noções como nação, etnia e raça como ferramentas de controlo. The South African Registration Act dated 1950, used the term ‘coloured’ to specify all people who Pela primeira vez em exposição na galeria Carlos where excluded of an previously defined social Carvalho, Carlos Noronha Feio apresentará group. This fact showed, not only a centrist vision três séries de trabalhos recentes que lhe vão but also a wish to benefit an hierarchical system, permitir explorar algumas questões como and revealed a problem of a racial classification território, raça e fronteira. “Plant Life of the or declassification. This case, as set out in Pacific World” toma partido dos efeitos visuais Immanuel Wallerstein’s article ‘The Construction das imagens de explosão nuclear convertendo- of Peoplehood: Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity’, as em composições que configuram um misto helped this sociologist to explain how social de formas vegetais e florais. Este conjunto de circunstances reflect inconsistent constructions trabalhos segue um tipo de nomenclatura and are transformed according to economic atribuída pelo botânico Americano E. D. conveniences of the capitalist system. This set Merrill a plantas naturais dos territórios que of interests, that come from structures of power, compreendem as ilhas do Pacífico, e que foi promotes inequalities and social asymmetries registrado num livro que emprestou o título and shows different situations connected to the Carlos Noronha Feio nasceu em 1981. Vive e trabalha em [Selected performances] Londres. 2012 - Per./Ta.. W.I.P.? 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