Gallery 206

Artist Delcy Morelos dramatically transforms the gallery space with an intervention that blurs the boundaries between sculpture and architecture. Morelos’s study and redesign of the space is accompanied by a handmade process, where the artist produces a mixture of earth, clay, hay, cinnamon, cloves, and other materials to create an immersive sensory experience that has a strong impact on the entire Museum. Morelos’s installations explore the capacity of art to help re-establish our connection with the Earth, our teacher and mother, and her production resembles rituals of offering and gratitude, inscribed in the eternal cycle of birth and death. This new intervention, entitled Sorgin (witch in Basque), reminds us of the ancestral wisdom of the Basque women: midwives, healers with knowledge of native medicinal plants, capable of communicating with trees, plants, and mountains, and keepers of wisdom, which aroused the fear of the dominant Catholic society, leading to their persecution.