Barbara Wagner Benjamin de Burca

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca are a visual art duo born in 1980 in Brasília, Brazil, and 1975 in Munich, Germany, respectively. They primarily work in filmmaking, video installation, and photography, often collaborating with non-actors for scripted dance performances and screenwriting. Their work explores regional and culturally specific dance movements and contemporary music genres across geographies in Brazil and beyond. The duo began collaborating in 2011, creating videos, photographic series, and installations that combine fictional and documentary elements with popular culture aesthetics and ethnographic investigations on race, social class, gender, and language. Their films often highlight marginalized communities, such as queer people of color, and address themes like cultural identity, economic empowerment, and social struggles. Notable works include *Swinguerra* (2019), a two-channel video installation commissioned for the Brazilian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, which focuses on transgender and nonbinary communities in Recife. Other films include *Faz que vai* (2015), exploring frevo dancers challenging gender roles; *Estás vendo coisas* (2017), centered on techno Brega culture; *Terremoto Santo* (2017), addressing class struggles in a Pentecostal church; and *Rise* (2018), featuring Caribbean diaspora youth in Toronto. Their work has been featured in international exhibitions, including solo shows at the New Museum in New York, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and São Paulo Biennial. Their films are part of collections at institutions like Pérez Art Museum Miami and Kadist in Paris. Wagner graduated from the Dutch Art Institute in 2012. Their films have also been screened at festivals such as Berlinale, ...