Resident Faculty Lecture:
Eduardo Navarro
Type
Lecture
Series
Barbara Lee Lecture Series
Location
Old Dominion Fresco Barn
Skowhegan Campus
39 Art School Rd
Madison, ME 04950
Date
7:30 PM
Related from The Library
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Eduardo Navarro, "Spathiphyllum Auris," 2022. Installation view at Nature Park Puez-Odle, Vallunga. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo
Eduardo Navarro, "F.O.C.A.," 2024. Photo: Leslie Gomez
Eduardo Navarro performs "Timeless Alex" during the May 2015 Triennial at the New Museum in New York. Photo: Pascal Perich
Eduardo Navarro, "Cloud Museum," 2025 at the Walker Art Center. Photo: Bill Cameron
Eduardo Navarro, "Octopia," 2016. Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico. Photo: Enrique Macias
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Eduardo Navarro, "Spathiphyllum Auris," 2022. Installation view at Nature Park Puez-Odle, Vallunga. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo
Eduardo Navarro, "F.O.C.A.," 2024. Photo: Leslie Gomez
Eduardo Navarro performs "Timeless Alex" during the May 2015 Triennial at the New Museum in New York. Photo: Pascal Perich
Eduardo Navarro, "Cloud Museum," 2025 at the Walker Art Center. Photo: Bill Cameron
Eduardo Navarro, "Octopia," 2016. Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico. Photo: Enrique Macias
Our Barbara Lee Lecture Series continues with a talk by Eduardo Navarro, titled: “From transforming to becoming, different ways of allowing contemplation guide our intuition into the unknown.”
Eduardo writes: “For the last 13 years, I’ve been creating artworks that dissolve into an organic cosmogony that requires synchronizing with non-conceptual & non-linguistic energies. Then, somehow, the artwork gains a life of its own, responding to its own perceptions, motricity and abilities. When this happens, we are no longer in control, I am no longer the author, a bigger energy takes over providing a bridge into an inner territory that perhaps we didn’t know it existed. This “becoming.” can only happen through contemplation, since ultimately the work is happening from within those who ARE it. Then sometimes a bigger question arises “what makes us human?” I think the only way to know what makes us human is by becoming a volcano, an animal, a cloud, a flower, a horse…”
Eduardo’s talk will be follow up by a casual reception. All lectures and conversations take place at the Old Dominion Fresco Barn on Skowhegan’s Campus in Maine.
About the artist:
Eduardo Navarro was born in Argentina in 1979 and lives in Chile and Uruguay. He describes his practice: “‘Contemplate until you become.’ I create works rooted in the power of deliberate uncertainty, collective intuition and the experience of non-conceptual language from a non-human perception: such as becoming a cloud, hearing like a flower or dancing like octopus in order to embody how they sense the world and communicate in it. My work expands in a series of mediums, such as kinetic sculptures, automatic-drawing and collective activations that require a state of deeper contemplation and transformation, which I hope blurs the illusory boundary between the inside and outside world.” Eduardo attended Skowhegan as a participant in 2006.
About The Barbara Lee Lecture Series:
The Barbara Lee Lecture Series is an annual series that features faculty artists during our summer program. During this series, we open our campus to the public, welcoming our friends and neighbors into the conversations that take place at the School. After the summer program, the lectures become part of the Lecture Archive, a growing collection of recordings that can be accessed online or on request.
