En Foco is pleased to present The Legacy Lab: Artist Talk, a public conversation with the artists featured in The Legacy Lab: Life Interwoven exhibition. Join us Thursday, January 29, from 6:00–8:00 PM at Pregones Theater. Click Here to RSVP.
The artist talk invites audiences into a shared dialogue around personal, familial, and community archives as living sources of artistic knowledge. Through conversation and reflection, the artists will discuss how photographs, documents, oral histories, and ephemera inform their practices and shape new narratives rooted in lived experience. The conversation will be moderated by multidisciplinary artist Claudia Sorens.
The Legacy Lab: Life Interwoven is currently on view at Pregones Theater through February 20, 2026. The exhibition presents work by Lola Flash, groana melendez, Danny Aros, Yeline Del Carmen, Evelyn Martinez, Joshua Poyer, Sofie Vasquez, Alexis Marie Montoya, and Felicia Wilson, each engaging archival materials as a means of preservation, storytelling, and cultural continuity. Together, their work highlights the role of artists as stewards of memory—activating archives not as static records, but as dynamic, evolving spaces of meaning.
Legacy Lab: The artist talk is part of En Foco’s Archives and Nueva Luz Study Center initiative, an artist- and community-centered project supporting the preservation, interpretation, and activation of personal and collective histories. This free, public program welcomes artists, students, scholars, and community members interested in photography, archives, and creative approaches to cultural memory.
Presented in partnership with Pregones Theater and the BxArts Factory, Life Interwoven transforms the gallery into a living archive, where the act of remembering is participatory and communal. The project continues En Foco’s commitment to making cultural preservation accessible, intergenerational, and community-driven.
As En Foco continues to celebrate 50 years of advancing artists of color and preserving the visual histories of diasporic communities, this exhibition reflects the organization’s enduring mission: to create platforms where art, archives, and equity converge. Life Interwoven demonstrates that archives are not static repositories, but living spaces where identities, memories, and stories continue to evolve together.