Foreign in a Domestic Sense

Immerse in this 4-channel video installation looking into the emmigration of Puerto Ricans to Central Florida, via testimonies and imaginaries, in the context of displacement.

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Natalia Lasalle Morillo

Foreign in a Domestic Sense Exhibition View (2023-05-17)Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

Foreign In a Domestic Sense is a video installation by Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Sofía Gallisá Muriente that explores the lives of Puerto Ricans who have migrated to Central Florida in recent years.

Foreign in a Domestic Sense Exhibition View (2023-05-17)Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

Through their testimonies and imaginaries, the artists witness and evoke the lived experiences of a group that –in the context of climate, political and economic disasters and displacement in the archipelago– constitutes the fastest growing group of Puerto Ricans in the US.

Referencing the United States Supreme Court's 1901 ruling that identified Puerto Rico as an unincorporated possession following the Hispanic American War of 1898, the title quotes the court’s oxymoron that originated a strange jurisprudence of colonial belonging.

Foreign in a Domestic Sense Exhibition View (2023-05-17)Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

The resulting 4-channel piece layers digital and Super8 film as much as fictional and non-fictional narrative forms to put forth speculations of how community is performed and recreated.

Foreign in a Domestic Sense Exhibition View (2023-05-17)Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

The installation aims to transport the viewers into the sensorial and atmospheric world of the piece through the use of space, light and sound in the galleries.

Foreign in a Domestic Sense Exhibition View (2023-05-17)Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

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