Ana Navas

Ana Navas (1984, Ecuador) is a Venezuelan - Ecuadorian artist. Working in different media like sculpture, video, painting and performance, her work deals with processes as translation, assimilation and appropriation. Her praxis goes behind the traces of an object’s genealogical tree. What are its possible ancestors, influences or new contexts in which it might reappear? Sometimes this approach can be real, historical, and other times, those connections are rather fictional ones.

During her work process, the metaphor of a non-stop domino effect, where things and contents are constantly moving each other, is recurrent. In her work, art is a dialogue with strangers, but this dialogue does not only resonate to the direct participants of the artistic experience but creates also a wider echo. One of the main questions in her work is how art is perceived and transformed outside the art context and what are the meeting points between different disciplines as ethnology / art / design / decoration and the relation between high and popular culture. Her interest lies in moments where these encounters, transformations, absorptions and imitations are especially present.