Foreign in a Domestic Sense

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Location
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Description
Artists Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and Sofía Gallisá Muriente gather testimonies and imaginaries of Puerto Ricans who migrated to Central Florida following 2017’s Hurricane Maria. This immersive, four-channel video installation layers fictional and non-fictional narratives, speculating about how community is created anew. The title, Foreign in a Domestic Sense, comes from the 1901 Supreme Court case in which a justice described the island nation as “unincorporated territory” of the U.S.
Website
https://calendar.auburn.edu/event/foreign-in-a-domestic-sense

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