23/05/2026
We buried Muriel on Wednesday and I have to say I cried, we lost her so soon, I know she needed to rest, to stop struggling, she needed some peace.
I met Muriel in 2007 when I started researching about latino artists in the DMV, I made an open call, gather a team of art related experts to function as jury and than co-curated the exhibit with Laura Roulet at the Mexican Cultural Institute. She was quite, a bit shy, but very assertive, extremely talented, full of ideas and concepts. It’s been almost 20 years, I shared many exhibits, art projects, auctions and studio visits and dinners, shared walls.
I curated her work several times. My son made a Barquito de Papel for her installation and in 2019 I curated that piece for “Aceptar” at the Joan Hisaoka Gallery in DC and as I was unpacking the work I found my son’s Barquito, 15 years later.
She will be missed. Muriel we will remember you, your work, your smile, your talent, and your stand for other artist, for latino and Salvadorian artists, and the memory of your mom and Laberinto Gallery/Projects.
Muriel Hasbun
Muriel Hasbun, whose work explored the complexity of memory via her experience of diaspora and the El Salvador civil war, died at 64.