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Dialogue of Cultures:
A Conversation Between Curators from Brazil and Russia
Videobrasil. Needs No Translation exhibition curators Solange Farkas, Andrei Vasilenko, Alessandra Bergamaschi, and Dmitry Belkin discussed the emergence and development of video art in Brazil, Russia, and other countries of the non-Western world.
In conversation, they raised a number of questions: how and why does video art reflect similar historical, social, and cultural transformations across different continents from the 1980s through the 2020s? What do Brazil and Russia of the 1990s have in common? How did television, inflation, and censorship shape a new language of art?
Videobrasil. Needs No Translation is an international project by Associação Cultural Videobrasil and
Two years later, the collaboration between the two countries continues in Brazil: the exhibition Campos de ressonância (“Fields of Resonance”) will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo on 7 November 2026. It will include artworks from the Moscow project, which can now be seen in a new light within the Brazilian context. Works by Viktor Alimpiev, Lyudmila Gorlova, Diana Kapizova, Elena Kovylina, Mikhail Maksimov, Andrei Monastyrski, Timur Novikov, Gia Rigvava, Igor Samolet, Sergei Shutov, and the collectives Blue Soup and Blue Noses will be shown there for the first time.