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| Carved and gilded car tyres capture Mexican folklore |
Betsabee Romero is a Mexican artist working with cars and tyres. Her themes include migration, modernism, and movement. I came across her work by chance at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam in 2011, while working with my "journey lines".
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| Tyres leave a printed trail |
She calls herself a “mechanic artist” and draws on Pre-Columbian iconography, colonial imagery, and popular culture to transform automobiles and their components into contemporary works of art. She refashions cars, carves tires, paints hoods, and incises mirrors to explore the tensions between local traditions and modern, industrialised societies dominated by speed, mass production, and emigration.
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| Exodus I (2007) |
See more of her work
here or on her
website.
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