Native people of the Pacific World-V, 2013

Provenance: Irena Hochman Fine Art Ltd.; acquired from the above by the current owner, 2015.

Carlos Noronha Feio’s practice engages with photography, painting, and conceptual strategies to explore memory, representation, and the construction of historical narratives. Working often with archival or found imagery, he intervenes through gestural marks and geometric forms, creating a dialogue between past and present, documentation and interpretation.

In Native people of the Pacific World-V (2013), a photographic image of a solitary figure standing by the sea is overlaid with abstract lines and geometric structures that partially obscure and reframe the subject. These interventions disrupt the documentary quality of the image, foregrounding its mediated nature while introducing a contemporary visual language. Through this layered approach, Noronha Feio reflects on the instability of historical representation and the ways in which images are continuously reinterpreted and reconstructed.