Sofía joins the 61st International Art Exhibition,
La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Koyo Kouoh.
On view May 9–Nov. 22, 2026.

Un montón de silencios

Directed and Shot by Sofía Gallisá Muriente
4K video with 16mm, Super 8, and 120 film elements

Un montón de silencios is an experimental documentary that reflects on 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 largely out of reach: Víctor Gerena, the Puerto Rican employee who carried out the robbery and disappeared beyond the reach of the FBI, and his mother, Gloria Gerena, a community organizer, social worker, and advocate for bilingual education who passed away in 2022.

Unruly subjects

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

Unruly Subjects centers on Puerto Rican archaeologist Reniel Rodríguez as he reflects on the history of the Piedras del Padre Nazario, an archaeological collection partially housed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Despite never having been formally studied by the institution, the stones remain catalogued within the museum’s archives as inauthentic.

Through testimony and image, the work interrogates the authority of institutional knowledge and the power structures that shape historical narratives. The film considers how objects, archives, and expertise become sites of dispute, raising questions about legitimacy, colonial classification, and the conditions under which knowledge is produced and validated.

Película policiaca

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

Película policiaca reworks archival footage shot by agents of the Puerto Rican Police Intelligence Division in the 1960s. Re-edited by Sofía Gallisá Muriente, the film revisits images originally produced for surveillance and state documentation, transforming them into a reflection on visibility, control, and the political uses of moving images.

Últimas luces

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

Últimas luces reworks archival footage originally filmed by agents of the Puerto Rican Police Intelligence Division in the 1960s. Re-edited by Sofía Gallisá Muriente, the work revisits images produced for surveillance, transforming them into a reflection on memory, power, and the afterlives of state documentation.

Celaje

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

Celaje moves between chronicle, dream, and document. Attuned to the temporalities of nature, the film reflects on human cycles and the lingering traces of colonial histories in Puerto Rico. Images decay, drift, and transform, revealing the marks of time both on the film material and across the landscape, where memory persists like a passing cloud.