First edition ofDialect byFelipe Romero Beltrn (2023)
First impression
Large format paperback in new condition
Signed byFelipe Romero Beltrn to title page
Published by Loose Joints
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Dialectcovers three years of state violence for nine young Moroccan migrants exiled in Kafka-esque limbo in Seville, southern Spain. When underage migrants enter the country illegally and cannot be verified as adults, their custody remains in the hands of the state subjecting them to a lengthy process of up to three years to gain legal status.
In this state of suspension and liminality, Beltrn engages with the body as a metaphor: using a carefully articulated language between photography, performance and collaboration, the weight of dead time is registered upon the shoulders of these young men, entering into dialogue with their memories, journeys, and the humiliating mundanity of waiting and migration. Alongside video works and choreographed dance,Dialectbreaks new documentary ground to shine a critical light on practices of bureaucratic oppression.
