PEDROARTURO’s FRÁGIL Brings Celium™ to A Lot of Balls

On April 22, 2026, A Lot of Balls opens at Magda San Ángel in Mexico City. 

Conceived within the cultural moment surrounding the world’s most visible sports tournament, the exhibition brings together more than 100 Voit footballs reinterpreted by over 100 Mexican creators across art, design, fashion, architecture, illustration, and other creative disciplines.

Under the artistic vision and management of Galería Ricardo Reyes, in collaboration with designer Ricardo Casas, the exhibition turns one of the most universal objects in sport into a canvas for authorship, symbolism, and experimentation.

Among the participating works is FRÁGIL, a piece by PEDROARTURO developed with Celium™️ Premium Cultivated Cellulose by Polybion.

Rather than treating the football as a symbol of spectacle, performance, or victory, FRÁGIL approaches it from a more exposed place. The piece reflects on masculinity, memory, vulnerability, and the emotional structures that are often projected onto the game. It does not reject football as culture. It reopens as a symbol. One that can also hold tenderness, pressure, fragility, and contradiction. That conceptual direction is central to the work, and the material had to support it.

For this piece, Polybion developed the material around the specific needs of the application. Construction, form, surface, and overall presence were carefully considered so the material could support PEDROARTURO’s vision with precision.

The result is a material language that feels natural, delicate, structurally intentional, and fully aligned with the idea of fragility. In FRÁGIL, material and concept are not separate layers. The material is part of the argument. It helps shift the football away from its usual reading and into something more introspective, and less fixed. 

A Lot of Balls opens on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, at 7:00 PM at Magda San Ángel in Mexico City, before continuing as an itinerant exhibition across different spaces in the city.

The project will close with an auction in support of Fundación Origen, whose work focuses on programs for women and their families aimed at breaking cycles of violence and reducing poverty.

FRÁGIL will be part of that larger conversation: one where a familiar object is reimagined by over 100 creators, and where material development becomes part of the cultural and formal depth of the work itself.

Photo Credits: Cesar Belio and Octavio Gutiérrez

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