Exhibitions

Exhibition organised by Fundación MAPFRE in collaboration with Carré d’Art, Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art.

Opening: Friday November 7th, 2025 at 6pm

Curator: Victoria del Val

Felipe Romero Beltrán’s artistic projects are largely based on the exploration of social issues, playing on the tension that new narratives can introduce into the field of documentary photography. Romero Beltrán’s approach is characterised by his commitment to long-term projects requiring meticulous research.

The exhibition at Carré d’Art - Museum of Contemporary Art will present the Bravo project, which is set in the liminal space of the Rio Bravo, a site where identity and geography intersect. Focusing on a 270-kilometre stretch of the river, Romero Beltrán’s Bravo constructs an elusive visual narrative in which the river itself becomes a silent protagonist, shaping the lives of those who approach it, but rarely appearing in the frame. Through stripped-down portraits, austere interiors, and marked landscapes, Bravo captures the suspended time of the landscape as his subjects wait, sometimes for years, in the shadow of an uncertain crossing.

Divided into three chapters (Endings, Bodies and Breaches), Romero Beltrán’s impenetrable documentary approach challenges the semiotics of classification, confinement, definition and identification in his visual aesthetic, which reflects the suppressed and controlled notions of identity at the border.

Alongside the photographs, the artist presents the audiovisual work El Cruce and elements of the project process. Romero Beltrán develops a visual reflection on the river and shows us five situations that divert and displace its border condition, incorporating other uses and situations related to its dual geographical and political character.

Felipe Romero Beltrán, born in 1992 in Bogotá, is a Colombian photographer currently based in Paris. He studied at university and obtained a PhD in photography from the Complutense University of Madrid. His series Dialect was awarded the Foam Paul Huf Prize in 2023. It was also exhibited at the FOAM Museum Amsterdam. Romero Beltrán’s work is now recognised and exhibited internationally. His participation in events such as the ARCO Madrid Art Fair in 2024, the Curiosa section of Paris Photo in 2023 and the Biennale für aktuelle fotografie in 2022 is testament to this. The artist has also received numerous awards, including the KBr Photo Award in Madrid, the Getxo Photo Award in 2020 and the Madrid Photobook Prize in the same year.

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