Darly Benneker — Walls, Soft as Listening
17.04.2026–​17.05.2026

Darly Benneker (1992, Colombia) is a Colombian-Dutch visual artist based in Antwerp. Walls, Soft as Listening is her first solo exhibition in Belgium. In this exhibition, she approaches migration as both an aesthetic and a material process, in which memories and materials are carried across borders.

The exhibition stems from her research in the botanical gardens of Medellín (Colombia) into the spread of the rubber tree to Western Europe. It explores life in artificial, climate-controlled environments that both foster and restrict growth, reflecting through these carefully constructed spaces on our understanding of “home”. The tension between familiarity and estrangement is central to this exploration.

Walls, Soft as Listening intertwines personal archival imagery with speculative fiction through fragile forms and materials. The exhibition was developed in Darly’s studio in MORPHO’s monastery building and produced by MORPHO in collaboration with RibRotterdam, with the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Belgium.