Claudia Pagès Rabal

28 Feb-11 May 2025

Overview

Claudia Pagès Rabal’s practice intertwines words, bodies, music, and movement. She examines structures of containment that facilitate the flow of commodities and capital. Recent works have centred histories of waterways, paper, and legislative language. Continuing her research across the Iberian Peninsula during the Al-Andalus era, Pagès’ new body of work turns towards sites of defence across its borderlands. For her Chisenhale Gallery commission, Pagès maps the rhythms and recurrences of sites of resistance. Five defence towers built under the Hispanic March – a military buffer zone established by European forces in the 9th and 10th centuries – become the protagonists for a new moving image work. Choreographed sequences of dance, light, and sound will trace forms of self-defence, and map the ways colonial practices of erasure persist through time.

Biography
Claudia Pagès Rabal lives and works in Barcelona. Selected exhibitions include: Manifesta 15, Barcelona, 2024; Scene I. Making landscape, IVAM, Valencia, 2024; Typo-Topo-Time Aljibe, Sculpture Center, New York, 2023; Uno, CA2M, Madrid, 2023; Banditry, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2023; Gerundi Circular, Tabakalera, Donostia, 2022; Some of It Falls from the Belt and Lands on the Walkway Beside the Conveyor, Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2022; Panorama, MACBA, Barcelona, 2022; Rats and Roaches, CAPC, Bordeaux, 2022; and The Living House, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, 2021. She published her hair in 2020 with Onomatopee, her first novel Més de dues aigües in 2024 with Empúries Narrativa, and will launch a new book with Wendy’s Subway in 2025. Pagès was awarded the Ojo Crítico Visual Arts Award in 2022, and has been artist in residence at Gasworks, London, 2017 and Triangle France, Marseille, 2020.