MADRID.- The work of Claudia Pagès Rabal unfolds and contracts in multiple ways. In their process, word, body and movement circulate in multiple directions, tracing a tangled linguistic network of micro-narratives, which go through critical listening to the immediate environment and its registration, through tenacious writing. Thus, depending on the vital moment and the circumstances, their practice can take on a textual, performative and/ or objectual body, in a pure vital drive to contain and capture the scattered map of habits, paths, relationships and conversations that make up our day to day life.

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Her work is currently part of the Biennale für Freiburg and the exhibition ‘Clear, Lucid, and Awake – Spanish Artists from the TBA21 Collection' at Art Sonje in Seoul. At the end of this year, she will participate in the Istanbul Biennial as well as in Generación 2026 at La Casa Encedida, and will present two solo exhibitions, one at mumok Vienna and another at Index in Stockholm.

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Pagès Rabal has focused on the logistics system and its link to jurisdictional language, both operating in the verbal tense of a non-finite and violent gerund that has direct effects on bodies. Pagès Rabal’s artistic research addresses circulation and maintenance and their role in sustaining the status quo. The continuity of certain systems and institutions is maintained through what Pagès Rabal calls the “immobility of stable circulations” and “containment architectures” that uphold power through specific flows of goods, capital and value within a suspended and capturing present.

Her work has been exhibited at spaces such a: Chisenhale, London (2025); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024); IVAM, Valencia (2024); Sculpture Center, New York (2024); CA2M, Madrid (2023); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2023); Tabakalera, Donostia (2022); Vleeshal, Middelburg (2022); MACBA, Barcelona, (2022); CAPC, Bordeaux (2022); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (2021); and Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2018). She has published her hair (Onomatopee, 2020) and Rats and Roaches (Jupiter Woods, Yaby, AC/E, 2020). Her first novel, Més de dues aigües, was published in Catalan by Empúries Narrativa in 2024, and she will launch a new book with Wendy’s Subway in 2025. Pagès Rabal was awarded the Ojo Crítico Visual Arts Award in 2022, and has been an artist-in-residence at Gasworks, London (2017) and Triangle France, Marseille (2020).