Oscar Murillo's 'A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise' at Venice's Scuola Grande della Misericordia

Oscar Murillo's exhibition 'A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise' at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice features the Frequencies project, an archive of 40,000 canvases created by students aged 10-16 from over 400 schools worldwide over six months. The ground floor presents these works as a tactile archive, with Archive Assistants helping visitors locate canvases by geographic origin. Murillo's practice extends into painting, sound, and wearable sculptures. The Disrupted Frequencies series uses blue oil pastel to unify divergent canvases. The sound piece 'Storm from Paradise' incorporates recordings from schoolyards and basketball courts, alongside flight tracking data. Wearable sculptures 'Arepas y Tamales' use AI to select patterns from student drawings. The upper floor features black canvases from the 2015 Venice Biennale Central Pavilion, Flight Drawings made during flights, and a nine-meter painting inspired by Monet's Water Lilies, referencing the Impressionist's cataracts. A public program of concerts, dances, and dialogues titled 'Dispersing Towards Being & Becoming Together: Frequential Reconfigurations' is organized with SAVVY Contemporary.