OSCAR MURILLO DIS PLACE SOLO EXHIBITION AT YARAT CENTRE

YARAT Contemporary Art Centre presents “Dis Place” – a solo exhibition by the Columbian-born artist Oscar Murillo.

The exhibition, which includes a newly commissioned series of works in an immersive installation environment, continues the artist’s engagement with  materials as a means of exploring wider conceptual dialogues surrounding  structures of production within a specific geographic context.

Murillo frequently explores issues of community and migration drawing upon his own cultural heritage and that of others. A core aspect of this show is the artist’s collaboration with a community of skilled workers from a historic town of Sheki in Northern Azerbaijan. Located at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains, it was an important post on the ancient Silk Route. Sheki Silk Factory, which produced silk and cotton textiles and employed over 7000 people during the Soviet times, formed the core of the community of workers living in the city. Most of them are currently disenfranchised as the factory operates at a fraction of its former self after attempts of post-Soviet privatization. Numerous journeys to the factory throughout the year have formed the backbone of Murillo’s exhibition at YARAT at the same time referencing a similar socio-economic situation at the sugar-cane factory in his hometown of La Paila in Colombia. Through a meaningful collaboration with the Sheki Silk Factory and the town’s community, these  discourses manifest themselves through  both  the  materials he chooses to use and a revival  of the factory as a site of production.

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