However, Navarro’s work is conceptually different from
Minimalism and does not belong to a specific movement. Iván Navarro lived under the Chilean dictatorship and his work reflects the psychological anxiety of living under a corrupt and controlling regime. One of his early and best known works, You Sit, You Die, is a chair made of white fluorescent bulbs.
« I am not expecting people to necessarily understand the words in the pieces, but there will be an experience of lights and sounds that anybody can access on a physical or emotional level. »
Iván Navarro
This piece is Iván Navarro’s version of an electric chair, in reference to how the Chilean government used electricity as a means of torture, and also in response to executions i
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However, Navarro’s work is conceptually different from
Minimalism and does not belong to a specific movement. Iván Navarro lived under the Chilean dictatorship and his work reflects the psychological anxiety of living under a corrupt and controlling regime. One of his early and best known works, You Sit, You Die, is a chair made of white fluorescent bulbs.
« I am not expecting people to necessarily understand the words in the pieces, but there will be an experience of lights and sounds that anybody can access on a physical or emotional level. »
Iván Navarro
This piece is Iván Navarro’s version of an electric chair, in reference to how the Chilean government used electricity as a means of torture, and also in response to executions in the United States. The chair included names of all prisoners executed in the state of Florida and was held together with shoelaces, which were items forbidden to prisoners due to fear that they would hang themselves. Although Iván Navarro’s explores suffering and oppression, his use of light in his sculptures is also an attempt to represent hope and truth. (
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