DELCY MORELOS

This project inaugurates a new line of pieces commissioned especially for the MUAC’s Gallery 9. Following a series of visits to Mexico City, Oaxaca and Chiapas, she designed an installation that would encompass the entirety of this gallery. For some time now, Morelos has been investigating our varied relationships with earth, food, magic and mythologies, allowing her to reconceptualize our social relationships as well as our relationship with nature. For her, the Earth is feminine, particularly in its relationship with fertility and nourishment; human beings have historically created technologies that allow them to establish relationships with this reality. These techniques for sustenance are not only defined by forms of production and consumption, but also by relationships with the divine, the magical, the natural and the social.

Morelos understands the Earth as a divinity that encompasses the cycles of life and death as well as one that has always been at the center of cycles of exploitation, war and violence. This is why her artworks seek to reformulate our relationship with the Earth in order to restore its importance and astonish us with its vitality. This piece was inspired by the circular structures built by many pre-Hispanic cultures—such as Caral in Peru, Ciudad Perdida in Colombia or Baños de Nezahualcóyotl in Mexico State—as well as by shaft tombs, land art, minimalism, arte povera and modern architecture, but particularly by the Cuicuilco pyramid and the UNAM Sculptural Space, both located near MUAC. Morelos’s intention is for this piece to be an inversion of the relationships and connections circumscribed by these two structures.