Iván Navarro                                                                          

Sendero Luminoso, 2007
Alluminum door, mirrors, light bulbs and electric energy
30 x 30 x 5 inches
Courtesy of the Artist
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Sendero Luminoso, a recent piece in Iván Navarro’s ‘Holeway’ series, creates a tunnel-like optical illusion using minimal means: an industrial door, mirrors and light bulbs. The viewer may feel an irresistible, if impracticable, urge to cross the threshold of Sendero Luminoso. The light-based sculptural works by this Chilean-born artist frequently concern themselves with control, fear, power and separation. Here, escape is suggested, but not possible; there is a menacing tone to his funhouse allusion. 

Since the late 1990’s, Navarro has exhibited widely around the world in such venues as The Whitney Museum, Exit Art and Roebling Hall Gallery (New York), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Gasworks Studios and Project Space 176 (London), G-Module (Paris), The Museum of Contemporary Art at the Goldman Warehouse (Miami), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago (Chile) and the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo (Spain). Iván Navarro is based in Brooklyn, New York.