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Why do we need to build the earth to feel connected to it?

Join us for an intimate evening inside Origo, a pavilion of earth, cinnamon and concrete in the heart of the Barbican. Discussion, drinks, and questions you probably haven't asked before.
Max 15 people · No Barbican ticket needed · Drinks included
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Thursday 16 July 2026 at 6pm

£45

Non-member

£35

Montly-member

£30

Yearly-member
what this evening is about

An evening inside the fiction of earth.

Colombian artist Delcy Morelos built a pavilion of soil, cinnamon and plant materials inside the Barbican Sculpture Court, 24 metres wide, three metres high, secretly reinforced with concrete so it could survive London weather. She shaped it like a womb. She scented it so you feel it before you understand it. She built it from a material she believes has its own agency, and then she controlled every inch of it.
Walk inside Origo together. Smell the earth and cinnamon. Feel what happens in your body before your mind makes sense of it. And then, over drinks, ask what it means that we need to build a fiction of the earth to feel connected to it. That is the conversation this evening is for.
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A short essay by Daniela

Sent 48 hours before. Who Delcy Morelos is, what Origo is really made of, and the fiction she's constructing.

A guided conversation inside the work

Max 15 people. Walk inside. Feel the earth, smell the cinnamon. Talk about what it's doing to you.

Drinks in the Barbican

Prosecco, wine or soft drinks. The conversation continues and usually gets better.

Questions this evening will open

Not answers. Better Questions. 

Art does not resolve. It opens. These are the questions Origo will put in front of you and the conversation with others that will make them worth asking.
The city
London calls itself an urban  forest. So why does the earth feel so absent? Is Origo is bringing it closer? 
the fiction
The earth is real. The scent is engineered. The structure is concrete. Is what you feel inside Origo genuine and does it matter if it isn't?
the body
Morelos describes Origo as a womb, the earth as the mother that feeds. Is that a metaphor, a myth, or something your body already knows?
The land
Which land are you craving? Your homeland, real or imagined? An idea of untouched nature that never existed? The land that grew your food? The land of your ancestors?
The gesture
Morelos built this with the hands of dozens of volunteers. Does this gesture change in value if its built by a community? 
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The Artist

Delcy Morelos

Born in Tierralta, Colombia, a region defined by conflict and displacement, but also by an intensely physical relationship with the earth. Her practice draws on ancestral Andean cosmovisions: the conviction that land is not a resource but a living being with memory and spirit.

Venice Biennale 2022. ARTnews Established Artist of the Year 2024. Origo is her first major UK work and closes 31 July.
Dates & booking

One date. Don't miss it. 

15 places only - drink included

Thursday 16 July 2026

6:00pm – 8:00pm · Barbican Sculpture Court, London EC2Y 8DS

Pricing

Ticket
Price
Includes

Non-member
£45
Essay - Conversation -Drinks
Monthly-member
£35
Essay - Conversation -Drinks
Yearly-member
£30
Essay - Conversation -Drinks
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Conversation lead

Daniela Galán is one of the leading voices on Latin American art in the UK. She has delivered talks and educational programmes for the Barbican, Sotheby's, and cultural institutions worldwide, specialising in the art of a region that remains radically underrepresented in mainstream art education.

Her experiences are not guided tours. They are curated intellectual journeys built around genuine conversation, designed to leave you with a new way of looking at art, at culture, and at the world.

Daniela Galán Lozada

Art historian · Founder, Amalgama Academy
  • Barbican
  • Sotheby’s
  • The Art Society
  • International cultural institutions

ready?

You live in a city of concrete.

Come and ask what you've been missing.

15 places. One evening. Origo closes 31 July and will not return to London.

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