Iván Navarro's sculptures rethink the practicalities of the conventional object, creating visually dynamic, radiant structures out of radiating fluorescent light. Yellow Stepladder emerges from his Backstage series, comprising a series of common objects that would be found in the back rooms of scene makers workshops. Made in monumental scale using the hard angles of furniture joinery, one is tempted to try and climb the softly glowing structure. This is far from a functional object, however, and indeed there is an inherent danger emanating from the heat of the materials: light and electricity are a part of the medium as much as steel and paint. Rendering the everyday object into something self-consciously impractical and radiantly dematerialized, Navarro’s sculptures simultaneously recall the light-based minimalism of American artist Dan Flavin and the De Stijl geometries of Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld.

This work is number 1 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.