ArtistMuriel Hasbun
FileFamily Frames, 2016.07.06 (from the archive, c.1960’s, El Congo)
Date2016
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage Size: 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)
Framed Size: 27 3/4 × 38 in. (70.5 × 96.5 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2019.023
ClassificationsPhotographs
Locations
- Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs (2000 14th St NW, 2nd Floor)
DescriptionAround 1964, Muriel Hasbun’s father made a photographic family portrait using a Rolleiflex camera on a tripod. In the picture, Hasbun, her brother, and her parents sit on a wooden bench that had been given to them by Hasbun’s paternal grandparents. Over 40 years later, Hasbun projected the photograph onto the same bench to make a new picture, layering the history of her Palestinian Salvadorian family onto itself. This artwork aligns with Hasbun’s efforts to mine both individual and collective memory to ask questions about identity and place.
