origo – Delcy Morelos

“In Andean ancestral traditions, the human being is living earth, I am a body, I am earth. In the exhibition space, the earth expresses itself; it is the center and mirror of what we are.” – Delcy Morelos

Delcy Morelos’s practice is rooted in ancestral Andean cosmovisions and the aesthetics of Minimalism and Abstraction. Her works inspire rumination on the interplay between human beings and the materiality of earth. Born in 1967 in Tierralta, in the Córdoba region – an area that was brutally affected by armed conflict stemming from illegal land appropriation and large-scale mining projects throughout the 1990s and early 2000s – Morelos began making paintings from red clay pigments that explored the entanglements between the body, territory and violence. Morelos has consistently represented beliefs in the earth as a symbiotic partner endowed with its own agency, rather than a resource to be possessed and controlled. Developing her material investigations into soil and plant matter through a framework informed by Andean and Amazonian relations to land, Morelos began creating colossal, monochromatic earthworks in which she intends her audience to be immersed.

 

Delcy Morelos: origo, Barbican Sculpture Court, 15 May – 31 July 2026 Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS