CARLOS VALDEZ-KEHOE

CHASING STARS
OR HOLDING ON TIGHT TO MY WET SHOES

Drawing from my own experience working in the Lower Austrian wine quartier, ‘Chasing stars (or holding on tight to my wet shoes)’ is a reinterpretation of testimonials from refugees working with me in the fields and, at the same time, a symbolic gesture that refers to my own past goals and aspirations. The sculpture, made […]

THE KITCHEN ARCHIVES

‘The Kitchen Archives’, is a project that explores the complex relationship between the restaurant industry in Dublin and cultural consumption. This installation and weekly performance reimagines food as a site of resistance and reflection, inviting a critical examination of societal structures through the lens of a gastronomic experience. The project integrates testimonies of 22 Mexican […]

A SMALL PLASTIC SNAKE
& A BIG TOY FROG

‘A Small Plastic Snake & A Big Toy Frog’ is a video that reinterprets a standard linguistic analysis tool—the Speech Accent Archive—through the voices of 12 non-native English speakers. In the video, the hidden architecture of speech is isolated: words dissolve, leaving only vowels pulsing on a black screen. Stripped of context, language becomes a […]