The work of the artist 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.

Pagès 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’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 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 as 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); Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2018). She published her hair (2020) with Onomatopee; Rats and Roaches (2020) with Jupiter Woods, Yaby, AC/E. Her first novel, Més de dues aigües, was published in Catalan by Empúries Narrativa in 2024, and will launch a new book with Wendy’s Subway in 2025. Pagès 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).

In 2025, she will be having a solo shows at INDEX, Stockholm and  Mumok, Vienna and a group show curated by Chus Martínez at Art Sonje Center; Seul, Korea. She also will be a resident at EMPAK, USA.