Oscar Murillo

Oscar Murillo’s work is situated – or perhaps un-situated and unfixed – within the notion of cultural and geographical displacement. Through the scope of his own biography, ancestry and migratory passage, Murillo traces mercantile histories, contemporary trade procedures and the global exchange of people and goods. With the context of capitalism, globalisation, neoliberalism and trade seeping into every brushstroke or sculpture made from corn and clay, the realisation of Murillo’s artworks is an act of labour and accumulation which mirrors its own subject matter. His dynamic paintings are a representation of a layering process, of cumulative mark-making that can be considered a documentation of their own conception and an archive of the artist’s relationship with his materials. ...