Delcy Morelos Embraces Heaven and Earth
about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)
Delcy Morelos Embraces Heaven and Earth Skip to content Installation view of Delcy Morelos, “Cielo terrenal” (Earthly heaven) (2023) in El abrazo at Dia Chelsea (all photos Louis Bury/Hyperallergic) Delcy Morelos’s El abrazo , Spanish for “the embrace,” is hard not to love. Its two soil installations, each occupying a massive room at Dia Chelsea, present a visceral contrast. The shadowy, cavernous first room contains “Cielo terrenal” (Earthly heaven, 2023), in which a glutinous layer of soil has been applied to most of the floor and the lower walls (the latter at a height corresponding to the building’s 2012 Hurricane Sandy flood line).