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

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The exhibition includes rug works – inspired by Afghan War rugs from the 20th Century, as well as the legacy of pioneering artist Alighiero Boetti who worked closely with local craftsmen in the country from the 1970s on his carpets and embroideries – present a world dominated by images of struggle, warfare, and technological conquest and are produced using old stitching techniques at the Arraiolos workshop in Central Portugal.
    The paintings and collages relating to the pacific regions of the world are based on the artist’s research of Western influence on native cultures. Digital photographs are marked with layers of abstracted forms representing dispositifs (so-called apparatuses) to embellish and subvert the image beneath, and in doing so, question the subject - revealing the tensions present in its construction. Here, the artist uses the strictures and rules of art as a hermetic system that comments on itself, while exerting a powerful influence upon the reception of culture.
    The title of the exhibition My Head is my only House unless it rains is taken from Don van Vliet's eponymous song, and featured on the album Clear Spot, by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band  released in 1972, and is suggestive of a dynamic, peripatetic practice taken from place to place, hermetic, yet open to the persuasion of the elements.