Claudia Pagès Rabal: From Defence Towers to Digital Landscapes In this episode, we dive into the artistic universe of Claudia Pagès Rabal, a Barcelona-born visual artist and writer whose work unravels the political, territorial, and linguistic tensions shaping the Mediterranean and the Iberian Peninsula. Speaking from within the development of her new project Feudal Holes, Pagès Rabal reflects on the historical layers, contradictions, and power structures embedded in landscapes, architectures, and the technologies that mediate our perception of them.
Her research traces the forgotten and contested histories of the Spanish March, a medieval border zone shaped by shifting sovereignties between Christian and Muslim powers. Through video installations, sculptural “image machines,” and drone-based explorations of Catalonia’s defence towers, she exposes how narratives of protection, invasion, and identity are constructed — and how they collapse under closer scrutiny.
In this conversation, Pagès Rabal discusses:
The evolution from Five Defence Towers (Chisenhale Gallery, London) to Feudal Holes (mumok, Vienna)
How surveillance, mapping technologies, and architectural remains reveal forms of control
The Möbius-like structures of her video sculptures and their refusal of fixed perspectives
The limits of knowledge, the violence of categorization, and the porousness of historical memory
Her broader practice across video, performance, sculpture, and writing
This video-podcast offers an intimate look into an artist who challenges how we read landscapes, borders, and the apparatuses that shape our understanding of the world.
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