Noel Ed De Leon
Noel Ed De Leon (b. 1976, Philippines) is a visual and performance artist whose interests span archiving as artistic practice, installation, art made with readymade and found objects, and multimedia sculpture. Noel͛’s work explores the themes of memory, DNA, remembrance and mapping traces of history through material objects. He holds a degree in Architecture and is an avid collector of memorabilia and original artefacts from the First and Second World War. Noel frequently incorporates these artefacts into his installations and live performances which explore how memories are kept alive in the social fabric, as well as erased through changing political, religious and social developments.