Oscar Murillo: By Means of a Detour

An artist's book-cum-diaristic account of one frenetic year in Murillo's life

This publication presents a year in the life of Colombian artist Oscar Murillo (born 1986), whose work spans many mediums, exploring cross-cultural ties in the globalized economy. Following him from Croatia to New York to Berlin and beyond, By Means of a Detour chronicles a single year of the artist's life. The year chosen, 2019, also serves as the culmination of the first ten years of Murillo's much-acclaimed career--of constant travel, research and making work. The book's form--printed on mock loose-leaf paper and scattered with iPhone screenshots and frenzied doodles--reflects the frenetic nature of Murillo's life and the year he chose to document. The book's inconsistencies and rough, unfinished appearance are the product of a collaboration with Olu Odukoya, whose anarchic and anti-authoritarian--or primitive, as he calls it--spirit have helped to produce a volume with particular design flair.