Remesas y Sobremesa: An archive immune to dispossession / Un archivo inmune a la desposesión
📅 Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
🕕 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
📍 Location: Flamboyán Theater, The Clemente Center
Remesas y Sobremesa makes dialogue a meal, carrying memory through food, storytelling, and shared ritual. The series reimagines the academic panel through the conviviality of the table. Taking its name from the remittances that sustain diasporic bonds, it transforms public dialogue into shared tradition.
For the fourth edition, Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo will curate and host the evening, engaging in dialogue with peers they have invited and guiding an intimate conversation over a communal meal prepared by chef Pao Lebrón.
The evening invites participants to reflect on intangible archives and memories that cannot be possessed, shared among folks with diverse migration experiences to New York.
This event is part of the Historias Initiative, under the thematic track Material Culture & Memory: Diasporic Objects and Archives.
Hosts & Culinary Experience
Hosts: Sofía Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
Culinary Experience by: Pao Lebrón
Guest Participants: To be announced closer to the event.
About the Hosts
Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo are visual artists living and working in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Their collaborative practice is grounded in research-based moving image projects that bring their distinct artistic methodologies into dialogue.
Their first collaboration, Foreign in a Domestic Sense, is a 4-channel film that weaves together the testimonies and imaginaries of Puerto Ricans who migrated to Central Florida following political and environmental disasters in the archipelago. The piece won the Audience Award for Best Experimental Film at the BlackStar Film Festival and has been presented at Third Horizon, the Flaherty Seminar, and as immersive installations at the Contemporary Art Museum at USF, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Dazibao in Montréal (CA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taiwan.
Their most recent work, Unruly Subjects, engages with two Puerto Rican collections housed at the Smithsonian, exploring their histories of accession into the imperial archive and how indigenous and folk art objects exist within the institution. The project proposes and mediates forms of return to the people and places these objects belong to. Unruly Subjects was recently showcased in New York as part of the 2024 Vera List Center Forum and the Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Museum.
Sofía and Natalia have been Smithsonian Artist Research Fellows and artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts together. They also continue pursuing their individual practices and other collaborative endeavors.
🔗 www.natalialassallemorillo.com | www.sofiagallisa.com
📸 IG: @natalialassallem | @hatoreina
RSVP
This is an intimate gathering with limited seating. RSVP here!
Accessibility & Dietary Notes
Please let us know in advance of any food allergies or dietary restrictions when registering.
The Flamboyán Theater is not wheelchair accessible; if you require additional accommodations, please contact us so we can best support your participation.
We look forward to sharing this evening of food, memory, and collective reflection with you.
The event will be preceded by "From Which We Descend," a hands-on archival and oral history workshop exploring memory, family, and legacy, led bycultural preservationist Djali Brown-Cepeda, founder of NuevaYorkinos. The workshop will be held on the fourth floor in Studio 406 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.