Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (b. Bayamón, PR) is an artist and director, whose research-based practice examines memory and history through participatory processes that invite collaborative creation, merging theatrical performance, experimental film, and installation. Rehearsing an alternative historiography that reexamines collective relationships to the past while simultaneously foregrounding the creation of new mythologies and fictions, her projects unfold across localities and narratives, exploring Caribbean collective memory and the material and spiritual trajectories that have shaped familial and relational structures impacted by the imperialist oppression in that region.

Her work has been exhibited extensively in venues and festivals around the world, including 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 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.

Las Nietas de Nonó is an Afro-diasporic duo formed by siblings mulowayi and mapenzi nonó, who delve into ancestral memory through personal archives. Their multidisciplinary practice encompasses performance, biomaterials, installation, video, and fiction, using a cartographic approach to explore the decay and abundance of territory, while reflecting on the past, present, and future. Since 2016, they have been researching symbiotic bacterial and yeast cultures, which has led to the creation of illuminated biomorphic sculptures.

They have exhibited their work internationally. In 2024, they were named among Artnews’ “75 Latinx Artists to Know,” in recognition of their significant impact on art history and their communities. In 2019, they co-founded the grassroots organization Parceleras Afrocaribeñas in Puerto Rico to advance environmental and racial justice. Their work is part of the collections at the MoMA and Museum of Contemporary Art Puerto Rico. They have received numerous accolades, including the NALAC Catalyst for Change Award (2023), the Artist Choice Grant (2024) from the Ruth Arts Foundation, the Latinx Artist Fellowship (2022), the Rome Prize (2022), and the United States Artist Award (2018). In 2022, they presented their solo exhibition Posibles Escenarios, Vol. 1 LNN at Artists Space in New York, addressing themes of expropriation and colonial violence against Black communities. Their work has been featured in prestigious exhibitions such as the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) and the 79th Whitney Biennial (2019). Their most recent video-performance, barullo a la orilla, premiered at the 2025 Hawai'i Triennial.

Pública Espacio Cultural is a cultural space founded in November 2018 by cultural producer Naíma Rodrígez and independent curator Natalia Viera Salgado. The space is located in the community of Alto del Cabro, one of the most important historic neighborhoods of Santurce, Puerto Rico. One of the major problems on the island currently is the lack of funding and spaces dedicated to serve the community in the cultural and arts sector. In November 2018, Pública: opened up its doors to become a platform for local artists and international artists as a way to strengthen the relationship between Puerto Rico and an international audience.

Pública considers multiplicity as its main strength. Thinking from this principle has allowed us to imagine ways in which the space can provide experiences for the enjoyment of the community such as exhibitions, public programs and community projects. The goal is to create a platform for the investigation and diffusion of contemporary artistic practices that go beyond traditional formats inside and outside the institution, while at the same time providing an accessible space for the community. It is also in our plans the reinforcement of relationships with other institutions not only in the island but internationally.