2026Mild steel, refractory bricks, custom metal organ pipes, brass and copper pneumatic components, wood, water, steam, food, fixed sound composition, loudspeakers, media player3 wood-fired acoustic ovens, each: 2.3 × 1.1 × 4 metres; continuous sound loop with live activations

Vica Pacheco’s practice explores sound through sculptural forms, empathetic technologies, and processes of transformation. OO! (Oven-Organ) (2026) comprises three sounding ovens inspired by the Mexican camotero, a street cart carrying a wood-fired oven whose steam whistle announces its arrival. Transforming this single whistle into a polyphonic organ, the work uses fire, water, and steam to activate multiple voices. The ovens take forms inspired by natural shelters: a chrysalis, snail shell, and shell inhabited by a hermit crab, reflecting on home as something that can protect, transform, grow, be inherited, and inhabited anew. Activated through sonic performances and communal meals, OO! brings together sound, fire, and food as a collective act of listening, eating, gathering, and making home.