Sumpul River Massacre Memorial Exhibition Opens at Centro Arte

Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador’s traveling exhibition "The 14th of May: Memorial for the Sumpul River Massacre" opened on Saturday October 19 at Centro Arte para la Paz.  The exhibition commemorates the victims of the 1980 massacre. It presents architectural drawings, scale models, paintings, ceramics, embroidery, linoleum engravings, research works, documentation and video testimonies, that contextualize the vision of the memorial and integrate artistic and pedagogical projects. We invite you to visit the exhibition, which will remain open until 30 January 2025.

This collective effort is co-financed by the Research Council in Social Sciences and Humanities of Canada (SSHRC), the United Nations Development Program El Salvador (UNDP), KU Leuven and UCLouvain Universities (Belgium), Western University (Canada), the Belgian office of architecture AgwA and the Centre Culture of Spain in El Salvador. Count on the contributions of the University of El Salvador, the Museum of Word and Image and the Sumpul Association.

The activity was attended by members of the communities of Chalatenango, the Sumpul Association, the Cultural Center of Spain in El Salvador, the University of El Salvador, the Museum of the Word and Image among other institutions; as well as representatives of the CAP and some leaders of the communities of Suchitoto.