In her artistic practice, which mainly involves the use of video and installation, Virginia de Medeiros appropriates documentary strategies to re-think the modes of interpreting the other by using anthropological and ethnographic research strategies. She participated in the 32nd Panorama de Arte Brasileira, at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2011); in the 2nd Luanda Triennial (2010), in Angola; and in the 27th São Paulo Biennial (2006). In 2009, she was awarded the Rede Nacional Funarte Artes Visuais prize (2009). She lives and works in São Paulo.