Oscar Murillo was deported from Australia last month, after the artist destroyed his British passport in the middle of a flight to Sydney. The destruction was in protest the privileges afforded certain Western societies. “The action of destroying the passport was to create a blockage situation, to create the point in which I am no longer that individual,” Murillo told a French journalist. “I gave a proposal, I went and made a proposal with a curator, and we were both really happy with it. At the same time, I was feeling uncomfortable because, despite the agenda for the biennale, which wanted to propose a strong situation, there seemed to be a lot of conservative attitudes toward allowing an artist to be really freely expressive.”
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