On the Other Side of Stigma is a site-specific installation by Betsabeé Romero designed for the external walkways around the Moden Art Museum in Bogotá, to accompany visitors on their tour of the museum without interrupting their passage.
The artist traces the course of a series of figures occupying the space in serpentine form and alludes to the fragility of migrant families and the dangers they encounter on their journey. The composition is reminiscent of the confetti bunting draped in parallel lines along streets during popular celebrations in different communities.
The installation tackles the issues of mobility and impediment, migration and obstacle. The continued repetition of the figures suggests a lack of a final destination, the legal, economic and labor limbo which forces them to keep moving, symbolically, from their place of origin towards an undetermined and indeterminate objective.
