laberinto projects is an arts, education and cultural legacy preservation platform that fosters contemporary art practices, social inclusion and dialogue in El Salvador and its diaspora, through exhibitions, art education, artist residencies and community engagement initiatives. Inspired by the late Janine Janowski's galería el laberinto art gallery (1977-2001), laberinto projects provides a framework for cultural understanding, dialogue and education through the country’s most significant and only collection of art produced during the civil war. The surrounding archive, in its developing stages, provides unique documentation of a thriving arts and cultural haven during the most brutal years of the war and its aftermath. As an extension of Muriel Hasbun’s artistic and teaching practice, the archive and collection become a living, transnational body, activated in the present through relational exchanges across borders and socio-cultural divides. laberinto projects’ main goals are:
1. to preserve the legacy of Janine Janowski, her galería el laberinto and its artists, through the conservation, digitization and dissemination of the historically-significant laberinto projects archive and collection, and through the production of new works based on the study of the archive;
2. to promote and nurture contemporary arts in El Salvador and its diaspora, through exhibitions and residencies for artists and scholars; and
3. to foster dialogue, post-war healing and social inclusion with art education and community engagement.
