Iván Navarro (artist)

Iván Navarro (born 1972 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean artist who works with light, mirrors, and glowing glass tubes to craft socially and politically relevant sculptures and installations.

[3] The politics and government of his homeland have had a profound impact on his work, both in his choice of media and in the meaning and thought process he portrays in his neon sculptures and faux-furniture.

[3]: 72 An example of Navarro's work being steeped in his homeland's history while also speaking to current political debates is his You Sit, You Die, which consists of a lounge chair built from white fluorescent tubes.

On the paper seat, he has written the names of every individual executed in Florida by electric chair, to bear witness to the state's record on capital punishment.

"[5] Navarro also works with light and infinity mirrors, in which viewers lose themselves in an apparently infinite space as neon phrases or structures loom out and suggest what lies beyond.