Felipe Romero Beltrán

In Dialecto, Colombian artist Felipe Romero Beltrán draws on the poetics of social photography, documentary, performance and choreography to question, socially and politically, the dead time that young migrants confront when trapped in the bureaucratic intricacies of the Spanish judicial system.

Presented in full for the first time, between MNAC and Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Dialecto follows three young Moroccan migrants over the course of three years as they are exiled in Kafkaesque limbo in Seville, in the south of Spain. When migrant minors enter the country illegally and cannot yet be considered adults, they enter the custody of the State, which submits them to an almost three-year-long process to obtain legal status.

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