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Iván Navarro was born in 1972 in Santiago and grew up under the Pinochet dictatorship. He has lived and worked in New York since 1997. Iván Navarro uses light as his raw material, turning objects into electric sculptures and transforming the exhibition space by means of visual interplay. His work is certainly playful, but is also haunted by questions of power, control and imprisonment. The act of usurping the minimalist aesthetic is an ever-present undercurrent, becoming the pretext for understated political and social criticism.
Courtney Smith is a Brooklyn-based artist working in sculpture and performance. Born and raised in Paris, she graduated from Yale University. She then completed the advanced studies program at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, in Rio de Janeiro, and established herself as an artist active in the Brazilian context of the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2000 she returned to New York, exhibiting internationally and maintaining studios in Brooklyn and Rio. Her sculpture practice consists primarily of building and unbuilding articulated, modular, reconfigurable wooden structures, or their text-based equivalent using words as interchangeable components.
In 2014 the couple established Konantü, a joint project defined by a series of participatory performances and coordinated group actions as an alternative to object-based and exhibition-oriented art. Konantü works have taken place in a variety of spaces, both formal and improvised, from empty buildings and public parks to galleries and institutions, in the form of workshops and participatory performances.
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