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Eduardo Navarro
Buenos Aires, 1979
Eduardo Navarro investigates ways of engaging natural phenomena, exploring the blurry line that defines us as human beings. In his search for a new language of empathy, he has created works in a wide range of media. In Tratamiento homeopático para el Río de la Plata (2013) [Homeopathic Treatment for Río de la Plata], he devised a treatment to restore the health of the river. In Hydro-Hexagrams (2017), he used ocean waves as an oracle for the I-Ching and asked questions of the sea. In Octopia (2016), he summoned the energy of a dried octopus formed by eighty dancers in a trance.
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The drawings on exhibit here are fruit of listening to his body with a stethoscope while walking around New York. These images originate in an intuitive process designed to channel the city’s energy and mix layers of sound information that clustered and vibrated in his body. As the artist says, “I think that any sound contains an image; the body is like a record album on which sound information is engraved. Even if you never listen to it, it is there, waiting to be released and reverberate like an inner echo.”
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