About the Exhibition.

Produced across three continents and staged in TMR’s 4,500 square foot warehouse space, prior to its renovation, Murillo’s project approaches the site of its presentation as a physical and conceptual structure through which making can be explored—as a form of work; as a process, within and beyond aesthetics; and as a means of living. Using the space as a studio over a series of short residency periods in LA, Murillo will process large quantities of various materials that have come to anchor the visual language of his practice—paper, canvas, wood, concrete, metal—giving way to objects, both finished and unfinished, that in the context of the installation aim to interrogate the boundaries between artworks and commodities as they subtly unveil poignant relationships between art-making and economies sustained by manual labor, manufacturing, and mass distribution. The results of Murillo’s multiple work processes, aided at times by local day laborers and collaborating carpenters and construction workers in Tijuana, Mexico, will be presented alongside a selection of videos that situate labor as visual imagery and as a set of embodied social and cultural interactions—drawing our attention to seemingly disparate systems of production that in reality are intricately related through the shared histories, cultural customs and ways of living that they help concretize across geographies.