The Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art (CAAC), under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Sports, presents the exhibition Profundis, an installation specifically designed for the Monastery of the Cartuja of Santa María de las Cuevas in Seville, headquarters of the CAAC. The scent of damp earth, visible roots, new leaves, the explosion of buds from the first plants that Columbus brought to Spain after his discovery of America, are the ingredients with which Delcy Morelos has conceived the installation.

Using local soil, Sevillian ‘yellow albero,’ and red soils from Huelva, Morelos creates masses inside the museum to encourage a reunion with the essence of Nature and, at the same time, closes a circle—a round-trip journey—between Seville and America through the plants that arrived from the new continent and now are part of a global world. "It seems that the monastery was destined to receive Morelos' work to recover a lost sensory memory," says Jimena Blázquez, curator of the exhibition and director of the CAAC. 

For the occasion, the Cartuja has been stripped of all adornment and has almost regained its original appearance, a space in shadow, of retreat, in which the voluptuousness of Morelos' piece, pure burgeoning nature, pure vibration, brings the light to make the ‘other journey,’ the symbolic journey from the darkness of Plato's cave to the enlightenment of reason.

"In ancient Andean traditions, the human being is living earth: I am a body, I am earth. In the exhibition space, the earth expresses itself; it is the center and the mirror of what we are," explains the artist about Profundis.

Morelos' work doesn't just invite reflection; it compels it, absorbs you, and connects you with the bowels of the earth to reconnect with origins. Through this sensory experience, the artist revives the dialogue with Mother Earth and confronts us with the urgency of caring for and respecting the earth, the earth she molds to create a refuge, similar to the maternal womb, Mother Earth, appealing to its feminine and ecological value. "The spectator," adds the curator, "is sensually surrounded by the fertility of the earth and its generative power, and can reach a broader understanding of reality, which includes spiritual, energetic, and cosmic dimensions beyond the visible."

The exhibition has the collaboration of the Embassy of Colombia.