Manuel McCarthy Valderrama

He/they

Visual Artist

manuelmcc.art@gmail.com

ARTIST BIO

I’m an Irish-Spanish multidisciplinary artist and facilitator working across a variety of media including large-
scale drawing, publications, sculpture, textile and videoperformance. My interactive-driven work is concerned

with object-human relationships through phenomenology and ontology.
I’m a member of the National Gallery of Ireland Youth Panel and the Douglas Hyde Gallery Student Forum
2024. My work has been showcased at the National Gallery of Ireland, the Goethe Institut Irland, Pallas
Projects/Studios, 126 Gallery, Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Trinity College Dublin and the National Botanic Gardens.
I’ve shown my work internationally with exhibitions in Germany (Silent green) and Spain. I currently work in the
National Gallery of Ireland as a tour guide and facilitator.
I dive into queer phenomenology and object-oriented ontology to understand the world from a non-human
centred perspective. I believe my practice can be an avenue for objects to explore new or different ways of
existing and relating to others and to themselves. I am deeply interested in the use of objects, how we use
them and how they use us, and ways to queer-ify these relationships. My current search is centred within the
kitchen, its appliances and objects. To date, I’ve explored forks, spoons, knives, chairs and toasters.

SELECTED WORKS

Bb for Banana (?)

Year 2024

Media

Diasy, Daisy, The Complex (Group Exhibition by Members of the Douglas Hyde Student Forum 2024)

Credits

Image courtesy of Conn McCarrick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Body's in Trouble

Year 2024

IMMA Earth Rising 2024

Credits

In collaboration with Mia DiChiaro, Karen Aguiar & Paola Catizone.
Images courtesy of Pati Guimaraes.
Funded by IMMA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Year 2023

Presented at Dublin Art Book Fair 2023 (TBG+S)

FORK

Year 2024 (2022)

The OBJECT itself, Lord Mayor's Pavilion

Credits

Performed by Laura García Ruiz

Our Emotional Support Toaster

Year 2023

Be Proud 2023, The National Gallery of Ireland

Credits

Image courtesy of The National Gallery of Ireland