Eduardo Navarro
Eduardo Navarro, Spathiphyllum Auris, 2022. Installation view at Nature Park Puez-Odle, Vallunga. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Eduardo Navarro investigates different ways of transforming our senses in order to have a new understanding of our world. Navarro’s works range from large-scale sculptures to wall pieces, drawings, performances, actions and participatory installations that explore both the mind, the elements and nature. Fascinated by human and nonhuman biological perceptions, he often uses performers (including himself) as actors and agents whose physical senses—tasting, hearing, seeing, feeling, and touching—guide the meaning and direction of the work of art. As he describes it, “I see the works as ways of contemplating. Contemplation and meditation have a lot in common. I try to make the audience contemplate something for a period of time that’s really absurd, and at the same time they have to get rid of their preconceptions of what they’re observing. Either you get into the mood of the work, that’s very slow, or you see it for one second and you leave.”
For the Biennale, the artist has produced Spathiphyllum Auris, a large sculpture of a peace lily which he placed in the natural setting of Vallunga. Its top part is concavous as to collect rainwater from which the birds can drink while its bottom holds a refuge where visitors can take rest and connect to the world from the inside of a plant.
Eduardo Navarro, Spathiphyllum Auris, 2022. Installation view at Nature Park Puez-Odle, Vallunga. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Eduardo Navarro, Spathiphyllum Auris, 2022. Installation view at Nature Park Puez-Odle, Vallunga. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Eduardo Navarro
Eduardo Navarro, Spathiphyllum Auris, 2022. Installation view at Nature Park Puez-Odle, Vallunga. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Eduardo Navarro investigates different ways of transforming our senses in order to have a new understanding of our world. Navarro’s works range from large-scale sculptures to wall pieces, drawings, performances, actions and participatory installations that explore both the mind, the elements and nature. Fascinated by human and nonhuman biological perceptions, he often uses performers (including himself) as actors and agents whose physical senses—tasting, hearing, seeing, feeling, and touching—guide the meaning and direction of the work of art. As he describes it, “I see the works as ways of contemplating. Contemplation and meditation have a lot in common. I try to make the audience contemplate something for a period of time that’s really absurd, and at the same time they have to get rid of their preconceptions of what they’re observing. Either you get into the mood of the work, that’s very slow, or you see it for one second and you leave.”
For the Biennale, the artist has produced Spathiphyllum Auris, a large sculpture of a peace lily which he placed in the natural setting of Vallunga. Its top part is concavous as to collect rainwater from which the birds can drink while its bottom holds a refuge where visitors can take rest and connect to the world from the inside of a plant.
Eduardo Navarro, Spathiphyllum Auris, 2022. Installation view at Nature Park Puez-Odle, Vallunga. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Eduardo Navarro, Spathiphyllum Auris, 2022. Installation view at Nature Park Puez-Odle, Vallunga. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo