En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy

En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy is a work spanning performance, film installation, and an exhibition that reassembles the Greek myth of Antigone. It is directed by artist 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. Through collaboration with an ensemble of nonprofessional actors from Puerto Rico and New York City's Puerto Rican diasporic community, it examines the collective consciousness shaped by decades of environmental, economic, political, and spiritual tragedies in the archipelago. Presented as a two-part film installation with an accompanying exhibition, Part I chronicles the New York-based cast's process while Part II follows a Puerto Rico-based ensemble developing their own interpretation of Antigone.