Oscar Murillo’s expansive practice encompasses painting, installation, performance and participation.
In the summer of 2024, he took over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with a monumental participatory installation, The flooded garden (part of Uniqlo Tate Play). Here, the artist discusses elements that run through this commission and his wider practice, including references to bodies of water, such as the flood and the swamp, his practice of ‘social mapping’, which has grown out of his 15-year project Frequencies, and his unique form of painterly abstraction.
Murillo is joined in conversation by independent curator Emily Pethick and Rosalie Doubal, Senior Curator, International Art at Tate.
This talk marks the UK launch of Social Cataracts (2026), a book edited by Emily Pethick that survey Murillo’s practice with a focus on work produced from 2019 to 2026.
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