Delia Beatriz: Sequedad Sobrenaturalizada Concert

Time: 7 pm

Admission: Free

Sequedad sobrenaturalizada responds to Delia Beatriz’s exhibition of the same name in which she reimagines the Carmelite and monastic choir traditions through the lens of “sequedad sobrenaturalizada”—the spiritual aridity central to the teachings of St. Teresa of Ávila and other Carmelite mystics. This “supernaturalized dryness” reflects the soul’s journey through darkness, where divine presence is not sensed through emotional consolation but through the disciplined will to persist beyond desire. The work parallels this mystical struggle with the historical resilience of women like St. Teresa, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and the 16 Carmelite nuns martyred during the French Revolution—figures who defied the Inquisition, patriarchal, colonial, and institutional oppression to forge paths of artistic, intellectual, and spiritual resistance.

In this concert—formatted as a mass—the church itself becomes a metaphor: its architecture and acoustics are reworked to mirror the contested spaces these women navigated—where sacred music was both a tool of colonial hegemony and a subversive vessel for syncretic beauty. In this live performance, she reframes sacred music not as a relic of dogma but as a dynamic testament to resilience: a call to persist, create, and imagine in the face of both physical and spiritual desolation.