THE WATER WELL: MATTER, TIME, AND ACCUMULATION IN THE WORK OF OSCAR MURILLO
The Colombian artist presents at kurimanzutto a body of works focused on the sedimentation of time and on painting understood as a process.
kurimanzutto gallery in Mexico City presents El pozo de agua from February 4, a solo exhibition by Oscar Murillo (La Paila, Valle del Cauca, 1986), conceived as a reservoir of resources, experiences, and forms of knowledge that move between the intimate and the collective, the local and the global, the material and the immaterial.
The exhibition’s title metaphorically refers to an underground source, a vital flow that nourishes and sustains: “a river that weeps grieving spirits… deep arteries… my water well,” words shared by the gallery that evoke the sedimentation of time, land, bodies, and spirits that shape the landscape of our shared history.
Murillo, whose practice encompasses painting, collaborative projects, video, sound, and installation, explores in this exhibition his interest in collectivity and shared culture. Positioned at the boundary between performance and event, the artist incorporates fragments of canvases and materials accumulated over long periods of work, assembling them into surfaces that register gestures, marks, and layers of pigment.
The works on view function as composite terrains, physically assembled and conceptually interwoven through dualities: line and gesture, pigment and canvas, abundance and scarcity, intuition and chance. Each painting bears witness to a negotiation with matter that, in turn, reflects our own relationship with life—advancing and retreating, stumbling and moving forward without a linear direction.
El pozo de agua will be on view from February 4 through March 28, 2026, at kurimanzutto, Gob. Rafael Rebollar 94, Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, 11850, Mexico City (Mexico).
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