SANTOS Y SOMBRAS
With forbears of Christian-Palestinian and French-Polish-Jewish background, Muriel Hasbun (El Salvador, b. 1961) has a family with an eventful history. At home the dramatic past of the Holocaust, flight and hiding was hardly spoken of; during the civil war that raged in El Salvador in the 1980s Hasbun could, however, imagine the history and feelings of displacement of her parents and grandparents. Since 1990 Hasbun has devoted herself entirely to a visual investigation of her family history and her own identity. The on-going photo project ‘Santos y Sombras’ (Saints and Shadows) is a photographic diary in which she makes the invisible visible. Hasbun catches the concealed past in poetic images with multiple layers which are open for personal associations and new narratives.