Fala da Terra [Voice of the Land] (2022)_1

Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca

Bárbara Wagner: Brasília, Brazil, 1980
Benjamin de Burca: Munich, Germany, 1975


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Working together for over a decade, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca produce videos and video installations in dialog with other artists and collectives. The duo has developed a research method according to documentary observation and investigation, constructing the direction, screenwriting, costumes, and soundtracks in collaboration with the protagonists of each project. This horizontal way of working is crucial for transmitting the frequently urgent, socially and historically determined content of their audiovisual investigation. In their approaches to modes of artistic making, social types and political friction are formative elements of discourse.


Recent solo exhibitions include Espelho do Poder, Sesc Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Set to Go, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland (2023); One Hundred Steps, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland (2023); Fala da Terra, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil (2022);One Hundred Steps, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands (2022); Five Times Brazil, New Museum, New York, USA (2022); One Hundred Steps, The Model Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland (2022); Swinguerra, ICA Boston – Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, USA; Bretagne, Rennes, France (2022) annd Swinguerra, Brazilian Pavillion – 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2018); They have also taken part in the group shows In Terms of Sport, New Taipei City Art Museum, Taipei, China (2024); IV Forum do Movimento das Imagens, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil (2024); Ritual in Transfigured Time, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst, Belgium (2024); FUNK! Um grito de ousadia e liberdade, MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023); Moving Bodies, Moving Images, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2022), Dance! – Movement in the visual arts 1880-2020, HAM – The Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (2022), One Hundred Steps, Manifesta 13 Marseille, France (2020) e Incerteza Viva – 32ª Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Pavilhão da Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil (2016)


The duo has works in important public collections, such as CIFO – The Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Miami, USA; De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands; DSM, Heerlen, Netherlands; FUNDAJ – Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil; ICA Boston – Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, USA; IMS – Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil; MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Coleção Pirelli-Masp de Fotografia. São Paulo, Brazil; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Coleção PIPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; PAMM – Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; The Arts Council Collection, Dublin, Ireland.