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**Jennifer Allora** (1974, USA) and **Guillermo Calzadilla** (1971, Cuba) are a collaborative duo of visual artists who live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through a research-based approach, their works trace intersections of history, material culture, ecology, and politics, using a multiplicity of artistic media that include performance, sculpture, sound, video, and photography. Since the beginning of their collaborative practice in 1995, Allora & Calzadilla have presented solo exhibitions at some of the world’s most important museums — including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Neue National galerie, Berlin; The Menil Collection, Houston; Serpentine Gallery, London; the Castello de Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MAXXI, Rome; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among others. In 2011 they represented the United States of America at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale with an ambitious project, *Glória*—a performative critique of the narratives and symbols that overlap in America's political, cultural, and economic nationalism. In 2015, they made the site-specific installation *Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos)*, a Dia Art Foundation commission on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The first mid-career survey of the artistic duo is currently on view at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, in Porto Portugal until mid-October.