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Artists Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca define their collaborative practice between documentary filmmaking and art making, while engaging popular culture to raise fundamental questions about social visibility.

In the celebrated video Estás vendo coisas (You Are Seeing Things, 2016) — recently acquired by Pérez Art Museum Miami — the artists dive into the subculture of brega music in Recife, Brazil. Having emerged in the 1970s, “brega” is an informal term applied to a body of mass-oriented popular music strongly associated with the notion of “bad taste.” While it is still often regarded …