Carlos Noronha Feio’s painting Native People of the Pacific World: dispositif I, 2013, is part of the artist’s exploration of the visuals of power. In these multi-layered compositions, he paints abstracted forms over documentary portraits of indigenous peoples who lived in Oceania during World War II. By literally whitewashing these images with fields of translucent paint, the artist reflects upon how meaning is constructed in relation to understandings of the ‘other’. As referenced in the work’s title, Feio’s painting is rooted in the philosophical concept of the dispositif, which refers to the apparatuses that underpin and maintain social power. In Feio’s painting, this substructure is represented by the ribbons of green, yellow and red, which together override and confront the image beneath to challenge how history is remembered. Feio’s works have been exhibited at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library, Lisbon, among others, and his work was included in the 2014 exhibition Matter of Trust at Nottingham Contemporary.
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