At Sean Kelly, Hilda Palafox Invites Us to Listen to Earth’s Primordial Whispers

There is a primordial energy, both telluric and feminine, that animates Hilda Palafox’s latest body of work. It’s a generative feminine force, at once of the physical earth and of Mother Earth. The protagonist of this new series is the earth as matter, as origin, as the site where nature holds all its potential and where life can sprout and flourish at any moment or persist resiliently against the counterforces of human-led destruction. On view at Sean Kelly in Chelsea through February 21, this...