Spring24_DelcyMorelos_Spring2024_Exhibition Guide_Mar–Aug 2024

Delcy Morelos: Interwoven Across her three-decade career, Delcy Morelos (b. 1967) has highlighted connections between people and the environment. Made from natural materials like fibers and soil, her work demonstrates respect for the Earth and its elements. This exhibition is the first career-spanning overview of the artist’s work, and it features paintings, drawings, and sculptures alongside a new largescale installation made with local soil. With this immersive structure, Morelos creates space to reflect on our profound relationship to the Earth and the centrality of soil to the human lifecycle. Morelos’s work is rooted in her experiences in her home country of Colombia. Among the most biodiverse nations, it encompasses the Amazon Rainforest, deserts, coastlines, and the Andes Mountains. Morelos grew up in the country’s north near the Caribbean Sea. As a child, she lived with her grandmother, a descendant of the Emberá people, from whom she inherited a deep reverence for nature. Morelos expanded this outlook through research into Indigenous Andean and Amazonian teachings. Around 100 Indigenous groups, including the Emberá, continue to thrive in Colombia despite centuries of ongoing subjugation and dispossession, especially of land. Morelos’s practice formed during the widespread violence of the Colombian conflict (1964–2016). This internal war was fought between the Colombian