The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (El Centro) and the television network HITN hosted a press conference to unveil the latest collaboration between the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) and Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero.
The Endless Spiral
According to the announcement, the MOLAA’s exhibition and research project on Romero’s work is titled The Endless Spiral and serves as a collateral event alongside the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. As the head of curatorial affairs at MOLAA, art historian and researcher Gabriela Urtiaga was tasked with curating the exhibit.
The exhibition aims to delve deeply into Romero’s artistic practices through commissioned artworks and new installations. This proposal stems from a longstanding relationship between the artist and MOLAA. The exhibition will open at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice on Saturday, April 20th, 2024, and will run until September 1st, 2024.
Since Romero’s work is part of MOLAA’s Permanent Collection, once the exhibition in Venice concludes, it is planned to relocate to the museum’s headquarters in Long Beach, California, for presentation in 2025.
Betsabeé Romero
Romero’s work resonates strongly within the Hispanic community as it seeks to explore the premise Foreigners Everywhere, which is the title of this year’s Venice Biennale. The artist aims to emphasize the experience of being a foreigner in the world and highlight that many of these migrants lack territory to seek refuge and survive.
Referring to the Mexican artist, Gabriela Urtiaga remarks, “Betsabeé is a nomadic spirit always seeking new experiences and perspectives, focusing on examining different essential and urgent issues for international audiences. She works with a strong awareness of topics such as migration, gender roles, cultural traditions, religiosity, mestizaje, and individual and collective memory. Her method of transcending the boundaries of established categories and making injustice visible worldwide serves as both a point of examination and a call to action, redefining itself as a community commitment through a dialogue between art, social justice, and heritage interacting for the common good.”
This exhibition is also sponsored by some key partners: William S. & Michelle Ciccarelli Lerach and Santiago García Galván. It will be accompanied by a publication/catalog and an exhibition brochure.
For more information: rebeca.torres@rendijafija.com
