August 13, 2026–January 3, 2027
Drawing on her Mexican heritage and ancestral traditions, Betsabeé Romero explores fútbol as a powerful expression of migration, community, and cultural exchange. In Tejiendo redes (Weaving Nets), the internationally acclaimed artist traces connections between contemporary soccer culture and the ancient Mesoamerican ballgame, juego de pelota, revealing how sport has long served as a space for gathering, storytelling, and belonging.
Throughout the exhibition, Romero transforms familiar symbols of the game into reflections on movement across borders and generations. Woven nets, engraved tires, mirrored soccer balls, and images of migrant families highlight the networks of care, labor, and cultural memory that sustain communities around the world. For Romero, fútbol is more than a sport. It is a shared language that travels with people, carrying traditions, histories, and identities wherever they go.
This exhibition is part of Tejiendo redes, an ongoing public art project that brings communities together through collaboratively woven soccer nets installed across North America. Created in partnership with women weavers in Tijuana, Mexico, the project celebrates the collective spirit of the game and the enduring connections forged through migration, creativity, and play.
About the Artist
Betsabeé Romero (b. 1963) is a Mexico City–based artist whose work explores themes of migration, memory, popular culture, and cultural identity. Working across sculpture, installation, public art, and community-based projects, Romero is known for transforming everyday materials, including automobile tires, vehicles, and objects associated with travel, into artworks that reflect on movement, exchange, and belonging.
For more than three decades, Romero has exhibited internationally, presenting projects at institutions and public sites including the British Museum, London; the Grand Palais, Paris; the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the Nevada Museum of Art; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and the Venice Biennale. Her work is held in numerous public collections, including LACMA, the British Museum, Museo del Barrio, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Through large-scale installations and collaborative public projects, Romero invites audiences to consider the ways histories, traditions, and communities are carried across borders and generations.
Featured at top right: Betsabeé Romero, El reflejo de su huella, más allá de la frontera (The Reflection of Their Footprint Beyond the Border) (detail), 2026. Frosted concave security mirror, LED strip, stainless steel. Courtesy of the artist.
