I’m Manuel, 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 the lenses of 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, The Lord Mayor’s Pavillion, Trinity College Dublin and the National Botanic Gardens. I’ve shown my work internationally with exhibitions in Germany (Silent green) and Spain (Complutense University of Madrid and La Juan Gallery).
I currently work in the National Gallery of Ireland as a tour guide and facilitator.
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My work offers a window to contemplate the implications of a world where objects hold the keys to a queer/utopian existence. I dive into queer phenomenology and object-oriented ontology to understand the world from a non-human-centred perspective.
I understand my practice as an avenue for objects to explore new ways of existing and relating to others or to themselves outside the ways imposed by capitalism and utilitarianism. I am deeply interested in the use of objects: how we use them and how they use us, and in exploring ways to queer-ify these relationships. My search is centred within the kitchen, its appliances and objects. I’ve explored forks, spoons, knives, chairs and toasters but my adventures may be pointing towards bigger appliances or even a route to encounter other rooms.
My works, in perpetual mutation and remix, can take the form of drawings, sculptures, interactive installations, video-performances, fabric objects or new media assemblages. Change and remix is a fundamental part of my process: different works merge, grow apart and change titles or meanings within the chaotic assemblage that comprises my practice.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Catalyst Arts, Members Show, 6 February - 8 March 2025
126 Gallery, Ties that Bind, 17 January - 9 February 2025
Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dublin Art Book Fair 2024, 21 November - 2 December 2024
IMMA, Earth Rising 2024 ‘Body’s in Trouble’, 20-22 September 2024
Muine Bheag Arts, DISTRO, curated by Chloe Maguire, 12-18 August 2024
The Complex, Daisy, Daisy, 9-11 August 2024
Lord Mayor’s Pavilion (Sample Studios), The OBJECT itself, curated by Robin Parmar, 13 June -19 July 2024
Ormond Art Studios, Zine fair for Palestinian aid, 12-13 April 2024
Pallas Projects/Studios, Pre Paddy’s Day Yard Party by Dublin Modular, 16 March 2024
Trinity College Dublin, Sustainable Sculpture Green Week, 11-24 March 2024
126 Gallery, imagine the blue is red, 12-28 January 2024
Complutense University of Madrid, Esto va de Micro y de Arte, 23 November - 16 December 2023
Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dublin Art Book Fair 2023, 7-17 December 2023
Goethe Institut Dublin, DÉAD (a set of teeth), 22 September - 27 October 2023
The National Botanical Gardens, Sculpture in Context 2023, 5 September - 13 October 2023
National Gallery of Ireland, Be Proud, 17 June 2023
126 Gallery, Alchemical Vessels, 13-29 January 2023
Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dublin Art Book Fair 2022, 24 November - 4 December 2022
Silent Green Kulturquartier (transmediale studio), DÉAD (a set of teeth), 3-9 November 2022
CSIS University of Limerick, DAWN, 25 August - 2 September 2022
Complutense University of Madrid, Camino, 16-31 March 2022