Claudia Pagès Rabal. Feudal Holes

Starting from historical defence towers, Rabal here expands her longstanding research into the Silk Road as a century-old trade route not only for goods but also for knowledge. In her video installations, performances, sculptures, and drawings, Claudia Pagès Rabal often addresses themes such as the protean history of the Iberian Peninsula, global migration movements, and the cultural diversity and mix in the Mediterranean region. Her starting point here is her research into five historical defence towers which mark the Catalonian landscape and which she uses to make moments of surveillance and control visible in architectural form. Text: Olivia Aherne, Martí Manen, Claudia Pagès Rabal, Franz Thalmair, Zoe Whitley.