Eduardo Navarro

Eduardo Navarro creates performances, sculptures, durational and participatory works exploring empathy, senses and contemplation. One can say that human physical senses are the artist’s medium in themselves, which guide and direct his work. In one performance (Polenphonia, 2018), seven flautists wore masks, designed by the artists to induce the sense of smell, and improvising, while wandering through the Jardín Botánico. In another performance (Octopia, 2016), a large group of people animated a massive mechanical octopus. In yet another work, Navarro occupied and repurposed buildings for communities, such as Mormons or former prisoners. Impossible to classify, Navarro’s creative practice is a storm of ideas and ephemeral emotion. Alongside his non-representation works, the artist produces drawings which allow him “relocate the studio to inside [his]own head”. Just like his performative practice, Navarro’s works on paper are whimsical, mysterious, immersive and land beyond explanation.