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Eduardo Navarro

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Eduardo Navarro

(Born 1979, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina)

I Found a Forest at The Bottom of the Ocean, 2024

A large tree, coloured metals, and chimes

Thanks to Edvin Buregren, Utskottet, Malmö

Realized with support from Pro Suecia Barbro Osher Foundation and The Wanås Foundation’s Patrons Circle.

Eduardo Navarro’s artworks often explore the potential of imagining how non-human beings move, sense, and communicate in the world. For the forest at Wanås, he has created an iridescent jellyfish that envelops a large old tree—as a way of exploring how trees come from the sea. Composed of 95 % water, jellyfish are among the most ancient creatures, with an evolutionary history stretching back 500 million years. Navarro imagines this jellyfish as existing somewhere outside of evolutionary time, in harmony with the forest, reminding us of our own aquatic ancestry—that humans also evolved from fish-like creatures—and of our kinship to the ecologies that surround us. The jellyfish’s tentacles are outfitted with chimes, which the artist invites visitors to play improvisationally.