Foreign in a Domestic Sense

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.

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.

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.

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.

The swamp, a Jet Blue cabin or a Space X rocket ship, and a Disney World theme park; all this imagery collapses into an embrace on the dancefloor.