Claudia Pagès Rabal. For That Moment I’ll Have Been in the World

Claudia Pagès Rabal presents, as part of the third edition of the cycle The Chairs of Tàpies, in the Reflection Room designed by Antoni Tàpies himself at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, a photo/light installation featuring a recital of a text setting out from Tàpies’s reflections concerning walls, doors, graffiti and inscriptions.

Based on the use of gobos, traditionally used in theatre to create textures and atmospheres but with a growing presence in public spaces to project shop logos onto the pavement, Pagès shifts our perspective on the space to an overhead view. This shift is articulated through the future perfect in the title, a verb tense in which the action has already been completed in the future from which it is expressed. Thus, the piece constructs a time in suspension, a space to imagine from a present immersed in a crisis that is also of the imagination.

The work of Claudia Pagès Rabal interweaves writing, sculpture and choreography. To do this, she creates visual and language devices including video installations, works on paper, books and other material forms that she uses to conceptualise her projects. Her most recent exploration has focused on the Mediterranean and its trade routes, language and time, and the search for primary signifiers in territories that function as palimpsests.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions including mumok, Vienna (2025); Index, Stockholm (2025); Art Sonje, Seoul (2025); Chisenhale, London (2025); IVAM, València (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); and Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (2021). She has also featured in the 18th Istanbul Biennale (2025); Manifesta 15, Barcelona (2024); and March Meetings Sharjah Art Foundation, Arab Emirates (2018). Pagès Rabal represents Catalonia in Venice at its 61st Biennale (2026).

She has published her hair (2020) with Onomatopee, and rates i cuques (2020) with Jupiter Woods, Yaby and AC/E. Her first novel, Més de dos aigües, was published in Catalan by Empúries Narrativa in 2024, and she launched the book Gerund Violence with Wendy’s Subway in 2025. Pagès won the Ojo Crítico visual arts prize in 2022, and has been resident artist in different places, including EMPAC, Troy (2025); Triangle France, Marseilles (2020); and Gasworks, London (2017).

Series “The Chairs of Tàpies” are curated by Judith Barnés.