From Here to There is inspired by an essay titled “La guagua aerea,” or “The Air Bus,” by Luis Rafael Sánchez. Like Sánchez’s essay, Martorell uses air travel to describe migration, leaving ambiguous which destination is “there” and which is “here” to emphasize that the movement of people and ideas is not all one way. The installation also serves as a theater for the projection of a documentary by Ric Burns. The seats are dressed as immigrants so visitors can sit on their laps, literally placing themselves in their position. Martorell created this installation for the Nueva York (1613-1945) exhibition, a collaboration between the New-York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio in 2010 which explored New York’s long connection with the Spanish-speaking world.