Delcy Morelos

Las formas de la sombra (The Forms of the Shadow)

March 21–July 12, 2026, Lokremise

Delcy Morelos (*1967 in Tierralta, Colombia) transforms the Lokremise into a place that is not only looked at but experienced with all the senses: a spatially expansive, ephemeral installation made of recycled earth, used wood, and fragrance essence. With few materials and an almost black, monochrome palette, she creates an intense environment in which seeing, smelling, and moving operate as equally significant modes of perception.

Morelos’s practice is radically focused on material, space, and pres­ence. Rooted in a worldview shaped by the Andean region – and in dialogue with Minimal Art and Conceptual Art – she has developed a distinctive language that moves between drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation. Natural materials function as carriers of time, process, and transience.

At the heart of the exhibition unfolds a vast field of earth mounds and painted wooden slats: stacked, layered, loosely piled – evoking farmland, topography, or archaeological traces. Walls and columns are coated with layers of earth; narrow paths lead through a condensed atmosphere in which closeness to nature, Indigenous spirituality, and colonial legacies intertwine. In this way, our alienated relationship to nature becomes sen­sorially tangible – quiet, focused, and ultimately political.

The Kunstmuseum St.Gallen is pleased to once again offer free admission for the entire duration of the exhibition. This is made possible by the generous sponsorship of SENN Resources AG.