(E-098/01) May 1, 2001 COLLECTIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION SHOWCASED AT OAS ART MUSEUM "Personal Recordings" is the title of a group exhibition of photographs, scheduled to open May 3 at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, using identity and memory as its main themes. The show runs until July 29 and features top artists from Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. Among the artists are Marcelo Brodsky and Eduardo Medici, from Argentina; Luciana Napchan and Antonio Saggese, from Brazil; Milagros de la Torre, from Peru; Ana Tiscornia, from Uruguay; and Alexander Ap�stol and Sara Maneiro, from Venezuela. The artists featured in "Personal Recordings" skillfully work into their works bits of written material, showing sketches and their meaning as a symbol of identity and memory. The photographers explore identity and memory from various perspectives: personal, sexual, collective, national and historical. Nearly half of the featured artists were formally trained as painters and sculptors, not as photographers. But they decided to apply various dimensions of photographic techniques to explore their subject matter. The exhibition will be inaugurated at 6:00 p.m. on May 3 at the OAS Art Museum (201 18the St, N.W., Washington, D.C.) and will be open to the public Tuesdays through Sundays between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ********** For further information, please contact: Florencia Sader, Tel: (202) 458-6020- E-Mail: [email protected]