Betsabeé Romero: Ojivas de la memoria (The Arches of Memory), 2010

In Ojivas de la memoria, Romero uses an array of colour, light and shade, form and counter-form to reflect on the dynamic of cultural interplay. She combines the traditional craft of Mexican paper cutting with Dutch Delft blue pottery. Although they seem typically Mexican and Dutch, both crafts originated in China. Each came to Holland and Mexico respectively by convoluted routes, and both are therefore hybrid products. Today, the crafts seem to be gradually drifting out of use and retreating into the realm of vague memory.

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