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From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
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Dialect
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantFelipe Romero Beltrán
- VenueCasa Gomis
Dialect, 2020-2023 © Felipe Romero Beltrán. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Ivan Erofeev
Over the course of three years, the Colombian photographer Felipe Romero Beltrán documented the lives of nine underaged Moroccan immigrants – all of them young men – held by the Spanish state at an internment centre in Seville. Guardianship for minors that arrive without papers is vested in the state; these minors remain in legal limbo until they reach adulthood and can legalise their status in the country. It was during these liminal years that Beltrán collaborated with the young men, inviting them to perform and reenact their stories, journeys and memories for the camera. Their choreographed bodies become a metaphor not only for this suspended time, but also for encapsulating their experiences. One photograph from this series is presented at Casa Gomis, where it gains an added dimension. An iconic Modernist villa is almost the polar opposite of the internment centre, a violent contrast between the everyday life of European citizens and of those who dream and risk everything for that life.
2020-2023
Inkjet pigment print on dibond
130 × 104 cm
Courtesy of the artist
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