Last day at Paris Photo 2025 — Booth B55, presenting Felipe Romero Beltrán in the Voices sector.
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Divided into three chapters — Endings, Bodies, Breaches — Romero Beltrán’s documentary approach challenges systems of classification, enclosure, and identification, shaping a visual language that reflects the restrained and controlled notions of identity at the border.
‘Bravo’, composed of fifty-two photographs, traces this reality through architecture, people, and landscapes: bare interiors; walls and surfaces where textures and colors quietly speak; fragments of roads and buildings marked by migratory passage; portraits of the men and women the artist encountered during his time in the region.
With meticulous precision, Romero Beltrán’s portraits both reveal and withhold resilience, exhaustion, and hope, while his still interiors — a speaker, a mattress, a table covered with a white cloth — carry a charged symbolic weight.
Bravo stands as an urgent, poetic meditation on a border defined by its own contradictions, where hope and despair, movement and stillness, inevitably converge.
Installation view of Bravo at Paris Photo 2025 by Felipe Romero Beltrán, presented by Hatch Gallery and Klemm’s Berlin. ©︎ Choreo. Courtesy of the artist, Hatch Gallery, and Klemm’s Berlin.