Exhibition
in Kyoto / Japan
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- Oscar Murillo: (untitled) anterior chamber, 2024, detail, oil on intaglio print, 57 x 38 cm, © Oscar Murillo, Photo Tim Bowditch and Reinis Lismanis
I am now home –
A renewed experience of learning, intimacy, friendships… sharing.
Collective darkness, time, history; the experienced. The institute of reconciliation, signaling devices, renew… rebirth.
An ‘Anterior chamber’
Structure of the eye, between the cornea and the iris; a fluid called aqueous humor. This chamber can become narrowed or blocked through aging or trauma, loss of vision.
This image relates to much of Murillo’s practice over the years. Pieces made contemporaneously with the artist’s large-scale participatory installation “The flooded garden” at Tate Modern in summer 2024, for example, exploring motifs of flooding, flows and water. The idea, too, of loss of vision has been an ongoing enquiry of Murillo’s – creating works using the title, social cataracts.
Oscar Murillo was born in 1986 and lives and works in La Paila, Colombia. Murillo earned a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts at the University of Westminster in 2007 and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2012. Murillo was part of a collective of 4 artists to be awarded the 2019 Turner Prize.
Gallery hours Thu-Sat 10:00 – 17:30
Closed Sun – Wed and National Holidays
Exhibition Duration 21.03. – 26.04.2025
Location:
Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto
123 Yada-cho, Shimogyo-ku
600-8442 Kyoto
Japan
