December 1, 2006-January 21, 2007
Washington D.C.: The Art Museum of the Americas and the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the OAS announce the opening of Breaking Borders / Rompiendo Fronteras, an exhibition of photography and digital art by the Salvadoran community living abroad. This exhibition will be on view at the Art Museum of the Americas (201 18th Street, N.W.) from December 1, 2006 through January 21, 2007.
There will be an opening reception at the AMA on Thursday, November 30 at 6pm. Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am-5 pm (closed Mondays and Federal holidays). For more information, please contact Greg Svitil at (202) 458-6016 (Tel) or (202) 458-6021 (Fax) or gsvitil@oas.org (Email)
Breaking Borders / Rompiendo Fronteras is an exhibit of photography and digital art from the Salvadoran community overseas. Curated by Rene Rodriguez, this exhibit of work by both professional and amateur photographers was presented in El Salvador in July 2006, and was the result of a call-for-entries to Salvadorans living outside of El Salvador organized by Latin American Cultural Space (LACS), the Consulate of El Salvador in Washington DC, and the Salvadoran Vice-Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Breaking Borders/Rompiendo Fronteras strives through images and testimonies to connect people and communities across borders. The participants in this project are all joined in their desire to share what it means to be a Salvadoran or a citizen of the world. Through the immediacy and communicative power of the medium of photography, they explore the concept of borders, be they imaginary, cultural, generational, national or international.
On view are works by artist-photographers such as Nicolas Shi, Muriel Hasbun, Gabriela Hasbun and Paula Heredia; photo-journalists such as Miguel Alvarez and Jorge Martinez; and others who, although not professionally trained photographers, explore the immediacy and communicative power of the medium. The photographers represented in the exhibit reside in various corners of the globe from North and South America to Europe and Australia.
As a part of Breaking Borders, Muriel Hasbun has created a site-specific community-based and continually transforming artwork entitled Documented: The Community Blackboard. In a space flooded with oral testimonies recorded by Hasbun in El Salvador this past summer, visitors are encouraged to write their narratives or post their family documents onto the blackboard wall, “contributing to a space which promotes tolerance, creativity and respect, where voices and photos become passports in a collective journey across borders, cultures, and generations.”
An interactive workshop for Documented: The Community Blackboard will be held at the Art Museum of the Americas on Saturday, November 18 from 11am to 1pm. The workshop is offered free-of-charge but registration is required.
Also on view in the Museum (2nd floor) is Selections from the Collection: Central America, featuring 23 works by artists from the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.
An exhibit catalog is available and can be provided upon request.
Breaking Borders / Rompiendo Fronteras is made possible by the generous support of LACS, the Consulate of El Salvador in Washington DC, the Viceministerio de Relaciones Exteriores para Atencion de Salvadoreņos en el Exterior, and the Mission of El Salvador to the Organization of American States, and is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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