The Mexican Betsabeé Romero installs sculptures in New York

The Mexican Betsabeé Romero installs sculptures in New York that dignify migration

New York, March 24 (EFE).- The Mexican artist Betsabée Romero presented this Friday a series of sculptures installed outdoors in one of the great avenues of New York, with which she seeks to dignify migration and celebrate pre-Hispanic cultures in front of the “disqualifications,” he told EFE.

These are five large pieces titled 'Traces in order to remember', which he has made with the large black wheels characteristic of his work, in which he incorporates the iconography of ancestral cultures with drawings of warriors , geometric borders or colored textiles.

Romero, next to one of the enormous wheels located on a garden in the median of Park Avenue, east of Central Park, explained that he conceives art as a form of resistance and has been "recycling material but also trying to recover what was lost for two decades." "He has been hit by speed."

"I use these tires to dignify the memory, precisely, of the migrants who have passed such a long and difficult path," explains the visual artist, who invites passersby to "see them, even touch them" and, addressing the thousands of migrants who live in the Big Apple, to feel appreciated.

"That they feel close to someone who is proud of them, who is proud of their culture and who is against all these belittlements and disqualifications towards migrants," he says.

The sculptures, which will remain on the road until November, are the prelude to Romero's participation in a collateral event of the Venice Biennale, where he will represent the Museum of Latin American Art (Molaa) in Long Beach (California), the only one in the US .USA dedicated to Latin American and Latin contemporary art.

Starting on April 20, the artist will present the exhibition "The Endless Spiral" at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, in St. Mark's Square, which also addresses themes "of migration, borders and all these limits, separations, polarizations that "They affect us so much today," he said.

"I believe that art is one of the instruments that we have as humans to go against it," he concluded. EFE