• Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.013 (Terremoto, 1986), 2020

    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?

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador.

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the art world and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.”

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.013 (Terremoto, 1986), 2020
    655,960
  • Pulse: Réplicas (Homage, Julio Sequeira), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Réplicas (Homage, Julio Sequeira), 2020
    1440,503
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.063, 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.063, 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: La novia (Homage, Rosa Mena Valenzuela), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: La novia (Homage, Rosa Mena Valenzuela), 2020
    1419,960
  • Pulse: Exotismo al revés (Homage, Rosa Mena Valenzuela and Janine Janowski), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Exotismo al revés (Homage, Rosa Mena Valenzuela and Janine Janowski), 2020
    1417,960
  • Pulse: Pulsante deseo / Self-Portrait (Homage, Carlos Cañas), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Pulsante deseo / Self-Portrait (Homage, Carlos Cañas), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.27.035 (1986), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.27.035 (1986), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Mujer y anturio (Homage, Carlos Cañas), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Mujer y anturio (Homage, Carlos Cañas), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.133 (Peace, 1992), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.133 (Peace, 1992), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Muchacha para un nuevo milenio, (Homage, Chubasco), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Muchacha para un nuevo milenio, (Homage, Chubasco), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 01.26.012 (11 Nov 1986), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 01.26.012 (11 Nov 1986), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Huella (2020.02.26.142), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Huella (2020.02.26.142), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.27.057 (Norte), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.27.057 (Norte), 2020
    653,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.091 (Aparición), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.091 (Aparición)
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Bowl (Bethania, 1984), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Bowl (Bethania, 1984), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.154 (Peace, January 1992), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.154 (Peace, January 1992), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: No registra temblor (Homage, Armando Campos), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: No registra temblor (Homage, Armando Campos), 2020
    1404,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.135 (Peace, 1992), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.135 (Peace, 1992), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.048 (Niño/17-III-83), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.048 (Niño/17-III-83), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.153 (Peace, January 1992), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.26.153 (Peace, January 1992), 2020
    1412,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.006 (Aparición: Body, 1983), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.006 (Aparición: Body, 1983), 2020
    1160,960
  • Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.006 (Aparición: Mother and Child, 1983), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Seismic Register 2020.02.28.006 (Aparición: Mother and Child, 1983), 2020
    1162,960
  • Pulse: Corazón (Homage, Luis Lazo), 2020

    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? 

    Pulse: New Cultural Registers is a visual registry for the future, reframing the cultural legacy of El Salvador during the 1980s and 90s using personal and historical archives from a diasporic vantage point. It imprints the rescued archive of the renowned Galería el laberinto --an epicenter of cultural activity during the Salvadoran civil war-- along with my own photographic archive of the time onto the national seismographic record of El Salvador. 

    Pulse encapsulates issues of social justice, representation and solidarity that are at stake in the artworld and in society. Transnational dialogue and decolonial visual representations are urgent. With 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the United States, we are the 3rd largest Latinx population, often vilified by reductive, dehumanizing narratives of war, violence, and migratory “illegality.” 

    To repair this, I created Pulse. The seismograms document the movements of the earth in El Salvador at specific points in time. Likewise, artists during the civil war replied with their art to the earth-shaking events of the same period. Melding these two forms of response, seismic and artistic reveals the land as terruño, and makes the voices and sensibilities of the artists reverberate across time and space, so they can be heard and seen both in El Salvador and in the diaspora. I challenge erasure, invisibility, prejudice, and established canons and territories, paying tribute to my late mother Janine Janowski and her legacy as founding director of Galería el laberinto, and to the artists who worked with the gallery during such difficult times. Pulse then, transforms the land into a fully lived and witnessed Thirdspace of memory and art, while mapping personal and collective history into a new meeting ground for a more hopeful, nuanced, dignified, and restorative future.

    Pulse: Corazón (Homage, Luis Lazo), 2020
    653,960
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