Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (Bayamón, Puerto Rico) is an artist and director whose research-based practice reconstructs memory and history through a transdisciplinary and participatory approach. Merging theatrical performance, experimental film and installation, her work decentralizes canonical and colonial narratives through collaborations with non-professional performers, artists and researchers. Natalia’s projects develop across localities and narratives, exploring Caribbean collective memory and the material and spiritual trajectories that have shaped families and relationships impacted by the imperialist oppression in that region. Bringing theater-based methodologies into the camera, she rehearses an alternative historiography that revises collective relationships to the past and simultaneously foregrounds the creation of new mythologies and fictions.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as Amant (NY, 2024), Dazibao (Montréal, 2024), RedCat (Los Angeles, 2024), 22a Sesc_VideoBrasil Biennial (São Paulo, 2023), National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C. 2023), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (2023), Hidrante (Puerto Rico, 2021), and Seoul Museum of Art (Korea, 2019). Natalia has been an artist fellow at the Smithsonian Institute, and participated in residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Amant (NY), Pioneer Works (NY), MassMoca (Massachusetts) and Fonderie Darling (Montréal). She holds an MFA in Theater Directing from CalArts and a BFA in Acting from NYU, and has taught film and performance at MICA, CalArts, and the Bard Microcollege. In 2023, she was awarded a Mellon Foundation Bridging the Divides Fellowship.
Natalia developed her practice nomadically, but is currently based in Puerto Rico, where she was born.
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Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (Bayamón, Puerto Rico) es una artista y directora cuya práctica reconstruye la memoria y la historia a través de un enfoque transdisciplinario y participativo. Fusionando el teatro, el cine experimental y la instalación, su trabajo descentraliza las narrativas canónicas y coloniales mediante colaboraciones con intérpretes no profesionales, artistas e investigadores. Sus proyectos se desarrollan en diferentes localidades y narrativas, explorando la memoria colectiva caribeña y las trayectorias materiales y espirituales que han moldeado a familias y relaciones impactadas por la opresión imperialista en esa región. Al llevar metodologías teatrales a la cámara, ensaya una historiografía alternativa que revisa relaciones colectivas con el pasado y propone la creación de nuevas mitologías y ficciones.
Sus proyectos se han exhibido internacionalmente en museos, espacios y galerías cómo Amant (NY, 2024), Dazibao (Montreal, 2024), RedCat (Los Ángeles, 2024), 22a Bienal Sesc_VideoBrasil (São Paulo, 2023), National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C., 2023), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico (2023), Hidrante (Puerto Rico, 2021), y Seoul Museum of Art (Corea, 2019). Natalia ha sido artista becada en el Instituto Smithsonian, y ha participado en residencias en Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Amant (NY), Pioneer Works (NY), MassMoca (Massachusetts) y Fonderie Darling (Montreal). Tiene un MFA en Dirección Teatral de CalArts y un BFA en Drama de NYU, y ha enseñado cine y teatro en MICA, CalArts y el Bard Microcollege. En 2023, recibió la beca Bridging the Divides de la Fundación Mellon y el Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños.
Natalia actualmente reside en Puerto Rico, donde nació.