Eduardo Navarro: Into Ourselves has been jointly developed by The Drawing Center and Der Tank. It was shown for the first time in November 2017 at Der Tank, and has been produced thanks to the support of Galeria Nara Roesler and the Consulate General of Argentina in New York.
The Drawing Center has commissioned Into Ourselves, a short-term project by Argentinian artist Eduardo Navarro for The Lab which opens on April 6, 2018. For the exhibition, Navarro has produced a new series of edible drawings, inspired by quantum physics––specifically the “holographic principle,” which describes how information in the universe can only be scrambled but never destroyed.
The drawings are placed on shelves with red “heat lamps.” During the course of the exhibition, the artist makes a soup that dissolves the drawings to make them digestible. With these components, Into Ourselves explores the idea of shifting our understanding of aesthetic primacy away from the eye and the world of ideas to metabolism, and the stomach.
Organized by Rosario Güiraldes, Assistant Curator and Brett Littman, Executive Director.