Artists

Claudia Pagès Rabal

Press release

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.