Educated in Cartagena, Delcy Morelos began her artistic career as a painter, and later she dedicated herself to large-scale installations inspired by the cosmologies of her indigenous heritage of the Andes and the Amerindian Amazon. Her most recent works evoke land art, have huge dimensions but within minimalist aesthetic parameters and are full of mysticism and poetry which as it’s typical of indigenous mythologies and traditional craftsmanship. Her installations – labyrinths of steel and concrete, forests created out of nothing, rooms filled with carved earth – which refer to social and environmental themes, emanate strength and energy through their emotional potential: they are sensory, they smell of soil and spices, the colors ‘burn’, the shapes kidnap.
