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Evarist Navarro’s "The Construction of Memory" at the Valencian Institute for Modern Art

VALENCIA.- The exhibition entitled La construcción de la memoria (The Construction of Memory), which presents the work of Evarist Navarro at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, comprises a selection of his research in the field of sculpture and installations, in which clay, both raw and in its fired or ceramic version, is the predominant material. Several small-format series arranged according to motifs and emblematic forms are placed around three site-specific monumental installations. The series are called Arquitecturas del cuerpo (Architectures of the Body), Arqueologías (Archaeologies) or De tripas corazón (Making the Best of Things), and in them he explores the links between past and present and their representation as solid objects. These works are accompanied by 25 drawings on acetate and 30 watercolours, in which he portrays the sculptural and spatial essays and reflections of his sculpture in two dimensions.