#Delcy Morelos

[octavio-world]

Dia castoffs

Photography is not permitted in The Earth Room. I would never photograph a work in secret. I am just here for the dirt.

#fall23 archive #walter de maria #delcy morelos #dirtposting #earth room

[futurebird]

a rainy Saturday at the galleries and museums.

Day at the galleries and museums. Even found some sauropod art.

I got to see that pile of dirt they have at Dia. It lived up to the hype.

Going inside is like being buried alive. Though the first part, the industrial clay factory in miniture in the very dark room... left me with more to think about. Mostly about mass graves, if I'm honest.

#art #nyc #dia #Delcy Morelos #el abrazo #Whitney #Henry Taylor #Nicolas Party #dinosaurs #paleo art #sauropod

[introspect-la]

EL ABRAZO BY DELCY MORELOS (2023)

ON RICHARD SERA & DELCY MORELOS

#El abrazo #Delcy morelos #Earth #dirt #sculpture #installation art #installation #Dia Chelsea #Chelsea #new york #art #2023 #substack #writing

[yellow-nocturne]

delcy morelos exhibit as my safe haven, cant stop coming back

[oalgar]

Delcy Morelos: The Embrace

The Embrace, 2023 by Delcy Morelos at Dia Chelsea (October 5, 2023—July 2024). Photo: Don Stahl

“To be in touch with the earth and to enter within it is to be in touch with what constitutes and nourishes us; the bedrock where life develops while it is inhabited by the soul.”

“There is a difference between seeing and entering. When you enter, you experience. Like in a symbiotic relationship, you allow yourself to be permeated by that which you are permeating.”

—Delcy Morelos

It felt both spooky and welcoming to be walking into what I coincidentally wrote yesterday Yaprak Yaprak Kara Toprak (Leaf by Leaf Black Earth).

More from the brochure for the exhibition:

"Morelos’s second installation, El abrazo, consists of a vast earthen monolith that hovers above the ground and pushes against the ceiling. El abrazo draws on the visual language of religious structures such as mastabas, temples, and ziggurats, as well as the mountainous topographies that inspire these forms." "In a text accompanying the exhibition (see “Instructions to touch the earth” on the reverse of this brochure), Morelos invites visitors to gently caress the surfaces of El abrazo, and to note that “to touch the earth is to be touched by her.” The sensuality of this encounter is heightened by the fragrant aroma emanating from the earth, which the artist has enriched with cinnamon and clove (both used for their natural antifungal properties), in addition to copaiba, a medicinal tree extract commonly used in the Amazon, and other accents. In this regard, Morelos’s work disrupts sensory hierarchies that privilege sight as a basis of knowledge over senses such as smell and touch."

#art #earth #home

[perpetualstateofrot]

Delcy Morelos: El abrazo

[kuntmoney]

Delcy Morelos, Dia Chelsea

#artwork #sculpture #art #photoart #aesthetic #trending #photografy #nyc

[majofrancom]

Delcy Morelos, tierralta Colombia

[malkav]

Delcy Morelos, Earthly paradise. (at La Biennale di Venezia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClGV4eFN7HUfSHkM1NhUh7gOYPObnfdw6z7La80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[earth-and-theatre]

Delcy Morelos at Dia Chelsea

[sbowen]

Delcy Morelos

is one of the creatives Artsy staff is captivated by. The Colombian artist’s all-consuming installations transform mud into stunning Minimalist sculptures that fill cavernous rooms, drawing on Andean and Amazonian cosmologies. #delcymorelos

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#abstractsculpture #delcymorelos #installationart #latinoartists #minimalistart #nontraditionalmaterials #womenartists

[underfish23]

記事: Delcy Morelos Conjures a Sacred Experience With Soil

Delcy Morelos Conjures a Sacred Experience With Soil

[movingspaceart]

[introspect-la]

BAND BY RICHARD SERA (2006)

ON RICHARD SERA & DELCY MORELOS

#Richard Serra #Band #LACMA #Los Angeles #Los Angeles County Museum of Art #art #sculpture #installation art #installation #steel #2006 #2000s art #substack

[alta-nyc]

Delcy Morelos : El abrazo

[laura-apexart]

DAY 21 : 7.28.23

The Cezanne documentary was sold out so I walked around the neighborhood until Marthin picked me up to go Visit Delcy Morelos studio. 

She was at the sweat ceremony and we all rode the bus back to the city together and she invited us to visit. When we arrive at her studio on the outskirts of Candeleria neighborhood, 

we are greeted by her 4 dogs and 4 cats– And there are also addolescent ducks but they greet us later, when we take a tour of the garden a neighboring building that is being restored as a storage area // more work space.

Before looking at her studio or work we go sit in her office which is more library or sanctuary made of beautiful wood and a cement sloped ceiling so it stays cool. There are lots of shelves with wooden boxes as movable drawers or containers. The space is lit by natural light and filled with beautiful objects-mostly organic, like her collection of hand woven baskets of various sizes and proportions collected from the Amazon.  All the fibers are natural and also hand made-she has a couple rolls of the twine that was spun from the bark of a tree or roots or a plant (I didn’t catch the specific name of it) and she also has an incredible wasp nest and bird nest collection, with potatoes that are white and chalky and apparently still edible. She invites us to sit down on small stools and lights candles and incense and Marthin and her chat, and I listen intently and try to understand but also submit and try to relax and just enjoy sitting in the beautiful space looking at all the beautiful objects. In her studio, she also has an incredible textile collection because she makes her own clothes which are beautiful, simple patterns (Japanese influence)  denim, Colton, linens.

She is preparing for a number of exhibitions in nyc and has a number of studio assistants helping her. One is at Dia. Chelsea in October–which will be fun to go see.

Because much of her work is made with earth /dirt, living matter, she explains, it can’t be shipped because of rules and regulations agains introducing seeds and soil and living matter from one continent or country to another. Funny to think of all the new microscopic matter and bacteria I will carry with me home after my month here. 

Crates are filled with hand made clay objects painted with a black chorcoal looking pigment, made to replicate the shapes of fossils and bones, Seeds, Carrots or tree roots. She will create the layers of the earth within her installation. 

After our studio tour, we sit in her kitchen drinking barley tea for hours talking.

Barbra Santos (whose installation I had seen at the national gallery a few days earlier) who also works with indigenous tribes in the Amazon, has been going since 18 yrs old and focusing on the land, earth and its stories, a non human centric perspective, also comes to visit as well as a gentle man originally from North Carolina who has been living in Bogota for 3 years teaching English. 

We  talk about horoscopes, all of our signs and their meanings, I tell her I’m a triple water sign and she gasps HA! So emotional, you lead with emotions, very intense–but have been told from a young age that I am too sensitive–which is why maybe I am so good at masking and sometimes being inscrutinable–a form of overcompensating?. She is also part Scorpio–Scorpio’s have a tendency to want to self-destruct–so the antidote is working your way through it–making, making, making! This resonated.) Conversation traverses family, teaching, racisom or fear of foreigners-between different cultures and specific stories of personal experiences, her recent trip to the Amazon, how it heightened all of her senses, she went alone and stayed with an indigenous tribe which she had been studying but still was getting to know them. We talk about places to travel outside of the city (that I should try to see to be in nature, because Colombia has some of the richest, most bio diverse ecosystems in the world) . I will have to come back. 

The difference between being inside of something and physically experiencing it with your body and senses (nervous system) vs reading /studying something from books and in an academic sense.  We talk about Input vs influence. A lot of the conversation is in Spanish and only some is translated. And I’m both trying to follow along but also kinda submitting and just enjoying the beautiful space and people but also feeling an exhaustion from my brain's battle to try to know but not know and be comfortable and ok with that. And time kinda disappears and I dono if this would happen in nyc. And by the time we leave it’s past 10pm, past my bedtime.

#Laura Bernstein