Foreign in a Domestic Sense: A Screening with Artists Natalia Lassalle Morillo & Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Curator Gabrielle Tillenburg
Foreign in a Domestic Sense: A Screening with Artists Natalia Lassalle Morillo & Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Curator Gabrielle Tillenburg
Foreign in a Domestic Sense (2021) is a constellation of testimonies and imaginaries of Puerto Ricans who have migrated to Central Florida in recent years, conjured by visual artists Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Sofía Gallisá Muriente. Their images evoke, accompany and connect the lived experiences of people who are part of the fastest-growing Puerto Rican population in the United States, as a result of political and environmental disasters in the archipelago. Just as displacement unsettles space and time, the four channel video layers fictional and non-fictional narrative forms in video and Super8 film, speculating on how community is created through recreation and how cultural hybridity signals to the future. As the ubiquitous presence of water in times of rising tides suggests that Florida will soon become an island, the artists envision a dance floor emerging in the darkness of a swamp, where their subjects become dancers finding each other and learning to move freely.
This program runs in conjunction with In Dispersion, Curated by Sofía Gallisá Muriente, VisArts’ 2022 Mentoring Curator, September 2 – October 23, Kaplan Gallery at VisArts, Rockville, MD
Seats are limited as space is prioritized for College Park Arts Scholars.
Foreign in a Domestic Sense (2021) is a constellation of testimonies and imaginaries of Puerto Ricans who have migrated to Central Florida in recent years, conjured by visual artists Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Sofía Gallisá Muriente. Their images evoke, accompany and connect the lived experiences of people who are part of the fastest-growing Puerto Rican population in the United States, as a result of political and environmental disasters in the archipelago. Just as displacement unsettles space and time, the four channel video layers fictional and non-fictional narrative forms in video and Super8 film, speculating on how community is created through recreation and how cultural hybridity signals to the future. As the ubiquitous presence of water in times of rising tides suggests that Florida will soon become an island, the artists envision a dance floor emerging in the darkness of a swamp, where their subjects become dancers finding each other and learning to move freely.
This program runs in conjunction with In Dispersion, Curated by Sofía Gallisá Muriente, VisArts’ 2022 Mentoring Curator, September 2 – October 23, Kaplan Gallery at VisArts, Rockville, MD
Seats are limited as space is prioritized for College Park Arts Scholars.