THE EARTH AS A FEMININE DIVINITY: DELCY MORELOS IN MEXICO

The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo de México (MUAC) presents El espacio vientre through June 7 of this year. The exhibition by Colombian artist Delcy Morelos (Tierralta, Colombia, 1967) connects the earth, the feminine, ritual, and memory through three local references: the ancient landscape shaped by the Xitle volcano in southern Mexico City, the Cuicuilco pyramid, and the Espacio Escultórico.

Morelos conceives the earth as a female divinity that makes the cycles of life and death possible, and reminds us that contemporary exploitation and territorial struggles produce a disconnection from the vital network that sustains our planetary existence.

“Listening with the hands. Seeing the smell of the earth with the fingers. Tasting it with the skin. Letting the hand levitate, glide gently across the surface. The earth is as fragile as we are. If you harm it, you harm me, you harm yourself. To touch the earth is to be touched by it,” the artist reflects.

Delcy Morelos studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cartagena. She lives and works in Bogotá. Her practice is rooted in Andean ancestral cosmovision and the aesthetics of minimalist art. Her abstract works, with their powerful evocative force, inspire reflection on the interaction between human beings and the earth, the human body, and materiality.