March 8–August 4, 2024
3716 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, Missouri 63108
United States
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On view from March 8 to August 4, 2024, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents two exhibitions, Delcy Morelos: Interwoven and On Earth.
Delcy Morelos: Interwoven place’s Morelos’s acclaimed large-scale earthen installations within the context of artwork across her thirty-year career. Made from organic materials, like fibers and soil, the artists’ drawings, paintings, and sculptures ask us to consider earth as a living entity on which we depend for nourishment and survival.
At the heart of the exhibition is Earthly Weaving, a large maze-like structure made of soil. The artwork was commissioned by the Pulitzer and designed for the main gallery. Eight-foot-high metal link fencing, encrusted with earth and spices, including aromatic cinnamon and cloves, forms passageways for visitors to navigate. Here, a building element customarily used to restrict access to land is repurposed to support an earthen structure.
Morelos has described the installation as being about the contemporary world’s “obsession with being owners of the land.” Morelos continues, “People put up nets, fences, and railings to delineate and separate land, saying this is ‘mine’ and that is ‘not mine.’ But it is absurd to think that we can be owners of the earth. We form part of the earth and we are united with her—we are not her proprietors.”
Running concurrently at Dia Chelsea, New York, Delcy Morelos’s first US solo presentation, is on view until July 2024.
About the artist
Delcy Morelos’s practice blurs the definitions of painting, sculpture, and installation. Over the last decade, she has focused on large-scale, site-specific installations using soil, clay, natural fibers, and other organic materials. Born in Tierralta, Colombia, in 1967, Morelos lives and works in Bogotá. Her recent solo presentations include those at Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (2023); Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2022); Galería Santa Fe, Bogotá (2019); Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada (2019); NC-arte, Bogotá (2018); and Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (2018).
On Earth, the second exhibition, features five film and video works that explore the complex relationships between humans and the natural environment. Produced between 1975 and 2022, the artworks highlight a range of urgent and interconnected realities. Addressing environmental devastation, displacement, and land rights, the artists draw parallels between our treatment of the earth and the people who inhabit it.
The artist roster includes Ali Cherri (based in Brooklyn, New York, born 1976, Beirut, Lebanon); Jeffrey Gibson (based in Hudson, New York, born 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado); Sky Hopinka (based in Brooklyn, New York, born 1984, Ferndale, Washington); Ana Mendieta (born 1948 in Havana, Cuba, died in New York City, 1985); and Rivane Neuenschwander (based in São Paulo, born 1967, Belo Horizonte, Brazil), in collaboration with Cao Guimarães.
About the Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Located in the heart of St. Louis, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents art from around the world in its celebrated Tadao Ando-designed building and surrounding neighborhood. Exhibitions include both contemporary and historic art and are complemented by a wide range of free public programs, including music, literary arts, dance, wellness, and cultural discussions. Founded in 2001, the Pulitzer is a place where ideas are freely explored, new art exhibited, and historic work reimagined. Open and free to all, the Pulitzer is a cultural and civic asset to the St. Louis community and a popular destination for visitors from around the world.
In addition to the museum, the Pulitzer is home to several outdoor spaces, including Park-Like–a garden of native plants and pathways, the Spring Church–an open air stone pavilion and beloved landmark, and the Tree Grove–a shady picnic spot with oak and redbud trees. The museum is open Thursday through Sunday, 10am–5pm, with evening hours until 8pm on Friday. The outdoor campus is open daily, sunrise to sunset. Admission is free. For more information, visit pulitzerarts.org or @pulitzerarts on social media.
