THE ART OF SUBVERSION
“I believe in art that is a genuine response to human activities,” says Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Ivan Navarro for whom art is a means of subverting reality that transforms an object’s original function and offers possible new meanings never before thought of. Writer Y-JEAN MUN-DELSALLE probes his creative journey, starting with how he arrived at his medium of choice to his continuous efforts to democratise art galleries as well as create unconventional spaces to showcase next-generation talent and the hyperfixation on his process-driven approach.
Ivan Navarro loves building lamps. When he began using electric lights in Chile during the ’90s, there were few places for young artists to show their work. Galleries weren’t keen to welcome a new generation of artists, so he searched for non-artistic exhibition venues such as a building lobby or a friend’s living room to
