Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, In Conversation

Brazilian Filmmakers/Artists Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca’s work celebrates—and reframes—vernacular cultural forms as they have manifested through time; as popular traditions become pop culture, for instance. Through photography and film, the artists examine a space in between, where cultural forms of the past adapt in response to changing economic conditions—particularly in emerging economies or post-colonial geographical contexts—and where popular genres persist through cultural mixing and diasporic refashioning.