Colombian sculptor Delcy Morelos, celebrated for her prominent role at last year’s Venice Biennale, will now be represented by Marian Goodman Gallery. As part of this announcement, Marian Goodman revealed it will host a solo exhibition of new work by Morelos, “El oscuro de abajo,” comprising monolithic soil sculptures in Paris later this month. In recent years, Morelos’s art has achieved prominence, especially in her home country. However, she had not received gallery representation before Marian Goodman.
Known for her installations composed of raw materials, Morelos will open with two new installations at the Dia Art Foundation in Chelsea on October 5th. These soil-based installations draw inspiration from Land Art as well as the cosmologies of Andrean and Amazonian Amerindian cultures, and take a similar approach as her Biennale installation, Earthly Paradise (2022), which invited attendees to peruse soil sculptures through a labyrinthine exhibit.
Morelos, whose practice is firmly rooted in her hometown, Tierralta in Colombia, has explained that her sculptures reflect the violence and widespread displacement in her country by blurring the boundaries of life and death in the natural world.
Along with the New York and Paris exhibitions, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis has slated a solo show for Morelos in the coming year.
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