Galerie LODO | 20 rue de Verneuil | 75007 Paris
Until July 4, 2026
Wednesday to Saturday | 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm
www.lodogallery.com | +33 (0)1 42 86 89 18

Betsabeé Romero is an artist in motion. 

She is movement.

Her work bears witness to a history, to traditions and contemporary tensions whose common thread is the displacement of human beings and the abandonment of vehicles. In her work, migration is no longer presented as a threat, but as an immutable force, a perpetual rebirth. Betsabeé Romero tells of painful destinies and mingled hopes, a union both forced and yet joyful, luminous.

It seems simple at first: a family hopping onto a merchandise train. Behind them, an escape and ahead, the hope of a safer land. The journey is dangerous. In Mexico, thousands vanish every year, declared missing, often without anyone looking for them.

Betsabeé Romero keeps telling their stories through installations and objects that carry and echo their stories.

For the artist, the rituals of pre-Hispanic civilizations are not relics, but living gestures carried into the present.

This movement of yesterday’s civilizations and today’s families, of plural memories and contemporary escapes, brings into view faces, identities, and passions of which we are the motionless witnesses. 

Everything is action in her work, even the interplay of light and shadow. And everything stands in opposition to our certainties, anchored in the illusory idea that we have reached our destination, our geographical, moral and political truth.

It is the ancient corn and the playful skeleton, the representation of ancestral figures and the reflection of glasses on the walls of what our eyes ignore.

Betsabeé Romero continues to explore this contrast between the stillness of those who are safe and the forced movement of those who are fleeing. She engraves their stories onto giant tires, car rims, and wing mirrors. 

One of her most iconic installations takes the form of an automobile turned into a child’s toy, marked by a large wrench along its side. Parked at the corner of Avenida Veracruz in Condesa, Mexico City, it quietly plays a melody by Agustín Lara.

With the soccer World Cup just weeks away, the artist also calls upon the ball, a universal and nomadic object, a symbol of urban life and the ceaseless action of the streets.

She herself cannot stay in one place. Betsabeé Romero has made France her own, and her work is now recognized the world over. Her presence at the LODO gallery, 20 Rue de Verneuil in Paris, just a few hundred meters from the École des Beaux-Arts where she studied, is no coincidence.

In this other city, which is also, in a sense, her own, Betsabeé Romero is regularly invited to intervene, whether on the steps of the Grand Palais or facing the Cour Carrée of the Louvre. 

Once again, she draws us into the movement of history and of peoples, a silent wave bearing the legacies of civilizations and a fragile tenderness for the nameless.

All pictures (c) JC Agid | Pre opening cocktail with Mexico Amabassador Blanca Jiménez Cisneros and Loredana Dall’Amico | April, 2026

More about Betsabeé Romero: About Art and Sustainability

Galerie LODO | 20 rue de Verneuil | 75007 Paris
Until July 4, 2026
Wednesday to Saturday | 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm
www.lodogallery.com | +33 (0)1 42 86 89 18