Pulse: New Cultural Registers/ Pulso: Nuevos registros culturales

Is it possible to trace our journey through a visual record of the land’s pulses? Can we metaphorically mark our personal and cultural legacies onto the land and in the process make it our “terruño” and diasporic homeland? Can we repair misrepresentation and erasure?

“Pulse: New Cultural Registers” reframes the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 1990s using personal and historical archives. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity in El Salvador during its civil war, founded by my late mother Janine Janowski-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. The constructed photographs transform the land into a fully lived and witnessed “thirdspace” of memory and art, mapping our history into a new meeting ground for an inclusive, equitable and restorative future.

With 2 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, and the largest immigrant group in the Washington, D.C. area. I invite the public to celebrate us, to get to know us, to empathize with us through the recognition of our art, culture and personal stories.

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.013 (Terremoto, 1986), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.013 (Terremoto, 1986), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Réplicas, 1986 (Homage, Julio Sequeira), 2020
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Pulse: Réplicas, 1986 (Homage, Julio Sequeira), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.063, 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.063, 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: La novia (Homage, Rosa Mena Valenzuela), 2020
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Pulse: La novia (Homage, Rosa Mena Valenzuela), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.154 (Peace, January 1992), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.154 (Peace, January 1992), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Pulsante deseo (Homage, Carlos Cañas), 2020
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Pulse: Pulsante deseo (Homage, Carlos Cañas), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Registers 2020.02.27.019 (No registra temblor or Homage, Armando Campos), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Registers 2020.02.27.019 (No registra temblor or Homage, Armando Campos), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.048 (Niño/17-III-83), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.048 (Niño/17-III-83), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.091 (Aparición), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.091 (Aparición), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Exotismo al revés (Homage, RMV and Janine Janowski), 2019.
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Pulse: Exotismo al revés (Homage, RMV and Janine Janowski), 2019.

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.27.035 (1986), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.27.035 (1986), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Mujer y anturio (Homage, Carlos Cañas), 2020
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Pulse: Mujer y anturio (Homage, Carlos Cañas), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Corazón (Homage, Luis Lazo), 2020
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Pulse: Corazón (Homage, Luis Lazo), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.006 (Aparición: Body, 1983), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.006 (Aparición: Body, 1983), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.142 (Peace, January 1992), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.142 (Peace, January 1992), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: La declaración (Homage, Miguel Antonio Bonilla ), 2020
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Pulse: La declaración (Homage, Miguel Antonio Bonilla ), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.133 (Peace, 1992), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.133 (Peace, 1992), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.153 (Peace, January 1992), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.153 (Peace, January 1992), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Bowl (Bethania, 1984), 2020
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Pulse: Bowl (Bethania, 1984), 2020

© Muriel Hasbun - Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.035 (Aparición: Mother and Child, 1983), 2020
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Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.035 (Aparición: Mother and Child, 1983), 2020

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