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Exhibition: Sofía Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle-Morillo


  • Dazibao 5455 Avenue de Gaspé Montréal, QC, H2T 3B3 Canada (map)

Interweaving the testimonies and imaginaries of Puerto Ricans living in Florida, Foreign in a Domestic Sense is a speculative documentary on the entanglement of climate grief and human displacement. Video and Super8 images of Disneyworld and NASA space shuttles evoke a paired concept of time and travel, while repeated depictions of water –swamplands, Florida’s rising sea levels, and Hurricane Maria– contemplate future and survival. Morillo and Muriente respond to this ambient anxiety in a layered visual exploration of the fragmented yet somehow restorative languages, memories, and experiences emerging out of Florida’s rapidly expanding community of Puerto Ricans. Food and music, gathering, and recreation build a sense of home away from home, however temporary or precarious.