ESPÍRITUS EN EL PANTANO BY OSCAR MURILLO AT MUSEO TAMAYO

On September 23, Casa Dragones joined the opening of Espíritus en el Pantano (Spirits in the Swamp) by Oscar Murillo at Museo Tamayo, an exhibition that transforms the museum’s central patio into a living, collective artwork.

Murillo’s practice extends beyond the traditional confines of the canvas, inviting the public into an act of shared creation. For this iteration, visitors are given black crayons and asked to inscribe, layer, and erase marks upon an ever-evolving surface that sprawls across the building. The result is a swamp of accumulated gestures — a powerful metaphor for collectivity, obscurity, and renewal.

Large swathes of stitched and weathered black fabric, once part of Murillo’s installation at the 56th Venice Biennale, hang from the ceiling and fold across the floor, acting as spiritual presences infused with memory and material history. Throughout the show, sections of this fabric will be ceremoniously cut and shared with visitors, spreading fragments of the work into the city itself.

By presenting the social not as subject but as structural force, Murillo reframes the exhibition space as an incubator for performance, memory, and community. Guests celebrated this opening with Casa Dragones Joven served neat, toasting to the power of collective expression.