Join us on Wednesday 31 July at the Tate Modern for Oscar Murillo’s ‘The Flooded Garden’.
We’ll talk with the installation’s curator Ms. Rosalie Doubal (Senior Curator, International Art, Performance & Participation), where she’ll give us insight into the artist’s work, followed by a Q&A session. Participants will be invited to take part in layering paint brushstrokes onto the canvas, thus together creating ‘the flooded garden’.
Order of the event
3pm- The band ‘ Mar, Río y Cordillera’, will be performing, filling the space with the folkloric sounds from the Valle del Cauca region.
4pm – The talk with the curator Rosalie Doubal will start. The meeting point for the group will be at the ticket desk in the Turbine Hall.
5pm- Area reserved at the Corner Café for those who would like to join us for a drink and a chat after the talk.
Recommendations given by the Tate:
1-For those wishing to take part in the painting activity, please wear suitable clothing or an apron as it involves messy materials.
2- Please note that it will be mainly a standing event. However, the Tate will provide a limited number of chairs for those in need.
About the artist
Oscar Murillo was born in 1986 in La Paila, a small town in the Valle del Cauca Department of Colombia before moving to London with his parents at the age of 10. He earned a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at University of Westminster (2007) and graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, with an MA in Fine Art in 2012 and was awarded the Turner Prize in 2019.
He works across paintings, installations, videos, and live performances, bookmaking and collaborative projects with different communities. He often uses draped black canvases and large-scale paintings that incorporate a variety of different media and techniques. His practice can be understood as a sustained and evolving investigation of the community, influenced by his cultural identities and Colombian background.
Murillo has had several solo exhibitions in cities across the globe. His first major solo exhibition in New York in 2014 transformed the David Zwirner gallery space into a fully functional chocolate factory, mimicking the factories in his native Colombia where generations of families had worked together. His long-term project, titled Frequencies, is a global initiative attempting to cover school desktops into canvases to encourage children to paint on them, effectively creating one large, internationally scattered work. Murillo lives and works in London.