Foreign in a Domestic Sense
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Natalia Lassalle Morillo & Sofía Gallisá Muriente
4-channel installation with sound, 32mins, 2021
4k, Hi8 and HD video with hand developed Super8 film
with Edilberto Guzmán Fonseca, Ángel Samalot, Nancy Hernández, Sofía Ortíz Morales, Lizbeth Concepción, Jezabeth Roca González, Teresa Basilio, Giovanni Bravo Ruiz, Alessandra Rosa, Tuto González, Jonathan Josué Guzmán, Rolando López, Suheily Martínez Plaza, Annette Reinosa, Kelsey Vélez & Carlitos Díaz
Sound design by Darío Morales-Collazo
Color correction by Oswaldo Colón Ortíz
Super8 scanning and coloring by Laboratorio Cuático
Additional footage by Héctor Lassalle Villanueva, Manuel Deschamps and NASA
Commissioned by USFCAM
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Foreign in a domestic sense 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 installation 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.
