Ricardo Basbaum (b.1961, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He is an artist and writer, investigating art as an intermediating device and platform for the articulation between sensorial experience, sociability and language. Since the late 1980s, he has developed a vocabulary specific to his work. His work has been exhibited at the 30º São Paulo Biennale (2012), Garden of Learning (Busan, 2012), Counter-Production (Generali, Viena, 2012) and documenta 12 (Kassel, 2007).