Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca
Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca’s works celebrate—and reframe—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 re-fashioning.…
Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca is a primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and is presented in conjunction with the 2018 Images Festival Off-Screen program.
Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca’s works celebrate—and reframe—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 re-fashioning.…
Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca is a primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and is presented in conjunction with the 2018 Images Festival Off-Screen program.
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