For Mexican Artist, a Quest to Map Lives Renowned Mexican artist Betsabée Romero’s solo exhibit, Cartography of an Identity, opens on September 22 at ADC & Building Bridges Contemporary International Art Exchange, in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. An observer of human behavior, Betsabée Romero breaks onto the contemporary street scene between memory and oblivion, rootedness and rootlessness, permanence and transience: parameters enveloped in an aura of tracks that leave their imprint on the depths of urban life and amidst the migratory reality of violence and contradictions intrinsic to modernity. Her iconography is filled with found, decontextualized and resignified objects: prints made on recycled and engraved tires, car hoods and even culturally dressed toy cars. A committed observer and daughter of her time, the artist develops within everyday experience, bringing constant
Renowned Mexican artist Betsabée Romero’s solo exhibit, Cartography of an Identity, opens on September 22 at ADC & Building Bridges Contemporary International Art Exchange, in Bergamot Station, Santa Monica. An observer of human behavior, Betsabée Romero breaks onto the contemporary street scene between memory and oblivion, rootedness and rootlessness, permanence and transience: parameters enveloped in an aura of tracks that leave their imprint on the depths of urban life and amidst the migratory reality of violence and contradictions intrinsic to modernity. Her iconography is filled with found, decontextualized and resignified objects: prints made on recycled and engraved tires, car hoods and even culturally dressed toy cars. A committed observer and daughter of her time, the artist develops within everyday experience, bringing constant
