Muriel Hasbun: With the Pulse of a Community / Con el pulso de una comunidad
Pulse: Réplicas, 1986 (Homage, Julio Sequeira), 2020
August 26 to October 26, 2024 | SU Art Galleries | Downtown
Artist Talk & Workshop: Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, 5:30 p.m.
Third Friday Exhibition Reception: Friday, September 20, 5-7 p.m.
A multimedia exhibition of several projects—including photographs, video, shared archives, and sculptural installations—representing over 35 years of personal and cultural investigation toward processing ideas of home, exile, the traumas of war, and the endurance of identity and memory. Largely based on archives and memories of El Salvador during the Civil War, Hasbun’s work coalesces rediscovered personal and community artifacts into transient works of reconciliation where universal truths about war, death, and legacy are rendered into new work marking the presence and continuum of a rich cultural diaspora.
An artist and educator, Hasbun recovers historical information, often lost or hidden, and activates the space across borders, generations, and cultural divides; enacting culturally responsive and equitable sites of dialogue, healing, learning, and creativity, with a special focus on generating knowledge about Central American art and culture.
She is the founder and director of Laberinto Projects, a transnational, cultural memory and arts education initiative that fosters contemporary art practices, social inclusion and dialogue in El Salvador and its U.S. diaspora. She is professor emerita at the George Washington University Corcoran School of Arts & Design. Previously, she was professor and chair of photography at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. She received her MFA in Photography (1989) from George Washington University and earned an AB in French Literature (1983) from Georgetown University.
An exhibition booklet will accompany the work including an essay by Andy Grundberg, art critic and writer.
