Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy
November 5–December 20, 2026
En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy is a work spanning performance, film installation, and an exhibition that reassembles the Greek myth of Antigone through collaboration with an ensemble of nontraditional actors residing in Puerto Rico and in New York City’s Puerto Rican diasporic community. Developed through a multi-year process of collaborative rehearsal and experimental filmmaking, the ensemble creates a shared space to examine the collective consciousness shaped by decades of environmental, economic, political, and spiritual tragedies in the archipelago.
Directed by Natalia Lassalle-Morillo as part of her two-year La Residencia residency with Abrons and Pública Espacio Cultural in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and organized by residency curator Natalia Viera-Salgado, En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy will be presented at Abrons Arts Center as an exhibition and a film installation. The exhibition and live performance will premiere in San Juan, Puerto Rico in March 2027, in partnership with Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. Natalia Lassalle-Morillo is a Puerto Rican artist and director whose interdisciplinary practice examines memory and history through participatory practices that invite collaboration. She has had exhibitions across the world, and most recently, her work was showcased in the 2026 Venice Biennale.
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En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy, 2026. Images courtesy of the artist.
About Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (Bayamón, Puerto Rico) is an artist and director. Merging experimental film and theater methodologies, her practice examines memory and history through extensive and rigorous periods of research and co-creation. Her projects unfold as rehearsals for an alternative historiography, thinking alongside fellow artists, researchers and non-traditional performers to examine our relationships to the past while simultaneously foregrounding the creation of new mythologies and fictions rooted in the Caribbean.Presented as multi-channel video installations, short and long-form experimental films, and live theatrical performances, her work has been presented extensively in venues, festivals and theaters internationally.
In 2026, she participated in the 61 International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Other exhibitions include the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (New York), Amant (New York), RedCat (Los Angeles), 22a SescVideoBrasil Biennial (São Paulo), National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, Blackstar Film Festival (Philadelphia), Images Festival (Toronto) and Seoul Museum of Art (Korea). 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 has taught film and theater at Maryland Institute of the Art, CalArts and Bard Microcollege, and facilitates workshops and knowledge exchanges as a way to socialize her artistic practice. She developed her practice nomadically, but she is currently based in Puerto Rico, where she was born.