SOFÍA GALLISÁ MURIENTE




Sofía joins the 61st International Art Exhibition
of La Biennale di Venezia, invited by Koyo Kouoh.



Un montón de silencios


Directed & Shot by
Sofía Gallisá Muriente
4k, 16mm, Super8
and 120 film

A Bundle of Silences is an experimental documentary that circles around the 1983 Águila Blanca heist, when the Puerto Rican clandestine pro-independence group Los Macheteros expropriated $7 million from a Wells Fargo depot in Hartford, Connecticut. At its center are two figures who remain out of reach: Víctor Gerena, the Puerto Rican employee who carried out the robbery and vanished beyond the FBI’s grasp, and his mother, Gloria Gerena, a community organizer, social worker and advocate for bilingual education who passed away in 2022.Through fragments of testimony, archival textures, and images processed with tobacco leaves and coffee, the film situates their story within a longer history of Puerto Rican migration to New England’s tobacco fields. This landscape becomes a poetic archive, one that resists visibility yet carries memory.

Departing from an interview between the filmmaker’s father, a pro-independence leader, and convicted participant Juan Segarra Palmer, the film weaves in recollections from Gloria’s friends and fellow organizers. What emerges is less a definitive account than a meditation on absence, the limits of documentary form, and the silences that continue to shape how this history can be remembered.


Unruly subjects


Directed & Shot by
Sofía Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle Morillo
Sound by Víctor Torres & Juan Antonio Arroyo
4k video and 16mm film
2024

Puerto Rican archeologist Reniel Rodríguez speaks about the history of the Piedras del Padre Nazario collection, part of which is housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where they are classified as fake, even though the museum has never studied them.
A Matter of Possession is part of the six videos that comprise the installation "Unruly Subjects", commissioned for the 2024 Smithsonian Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City.
To see the full video, email me at rojosofia@gmail.com



Película policiaca


Directed & Shot by
Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Sound design by Víctor Torres Rodríguez
16mm film scanned to video
2024

An experimental film shot by agents of the Puerto Rican Police Intelligence Division in the 1960’s and edited by Sofía Gallisá Muriente.


Últimas luces


Directed & Shot by
Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Sound design by Víctor Torres Rodríguez
16mm re-photographed in HD video
2024

An experimental film shot by agents of the Puerto Rican Police Intelligence Division in the 1960’s and edited by Sofía Gallisá Muriente. 


Celaje


Directed & Shot by
Sofía Gallisá Muriente
16mm and Super 8 film transferred to HD video, color, sound
2020

Celaje oscillates between chronicle, dream and document; using nature's times to interpret human cycles as an elegy to the death of the Puerto Rican colonial project and the sedimentation of disasters in this Caribbean archipelago. Memories move around like clouds, images rot and age, and the traces of the process are visible on the film and in the country, like ghosts.



Contact

Sofía Gallisá Muriente
rojosofia@gmail.com
Instagram @hatoreina

Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a visual artist whose practice asserts the freedom of historical agency, proposing new mechanisms for remembering and reimagining the past. Working across text, image, and archival materials as both medium and subject, her work examines the intertwined poetics and politics of representation, memory, and circulation.
Upcomming Shows

Forum on Contemporary Photography
MoMA
April 22, 2026.

61st Biennale di Venezia
In Minor Keys
Curated by Koyo Kouoh
Opens May 9th until November 22nd, 2026.


Current Shows

Entre ruinas
Museo de arte y diseño de Miramar
San Juan, PR
On view through April 30, 2026.

Trellis Art Fund
Milestone grant
2025-2026