Salvadorean artists
MURIEL HASBUN. RECORD: CULTURAL PULSES
Muriel Hasbun 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 her late mother Janine Janowski- along with her own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador.
EDDIE RODOLFO APARICIO: ESPINAS AMOROSAS
For Aparicio, rubber itself exudes the symmetry between the commodification of indigenous material culture and the exploitation of Latin American countries for labor and resources. Restored to its natural function, it also suggests a salve: dressing the wound, repairing the broken, displaced, and dispossessed. Throughout «Espinas Amorosas/Loving Thorns», entwined threads lead back and forth between El Salvador and Los Angeles, relays along which Aparicio is a spore.
Beatriz Cortez Envisions a World Outside The Confines of Western Civilization
The Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) presents «Beatriz Cortez: Trinidad / Joy Station», the El Salvador-born, Los Angeles-based artist’s first major solo museum exhibition. With this presentation, Cortez imagines a space of communal living that is dedicated to multicultural coexistence, the survival of indigenous peoples, and experiences of joy.