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The Brazil-based artist duo Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca produce films blurring the lines between fiction and documentary. Collaborating with their performers—often figures on the margins—the duo creates works that raise notions of visibility, self-representation, and the subversion of dominant cultural forms. Marcella Faustini spoke to the artists and wrote about their work.

Roger Boyce interviews Pavel Pepperstein for White Fungus. The enigmatic Russian painter of hallucinatory landscapes is also known as a writer, critic, art theorist, fashion designer, and rapper.

Joseph del Pesco presents photographer Curran Hatleberg with a series of questions to which the artist responds with images.

Nicola Trezzi interviewed Slavs and Tatars about topics ranging from pickles to the collective's embrace of antithetical thought.

Kyra Kordoski speaks to performance artist Melati Suryodarmo and dives into her deep corpus of durational works.

Leafa Wilson writes about Paula Schaafhausen's installation series Ebbing Tagaloa, featuring Tagaloa (Polynesian God of the Ocean) figures molded from coconut oil and sand.