Descripción de la Exposición
"Fugue 3 Times" is organised around three works in which Claudia Pagès constructs conceptual maps of three different verbal tenses while trying to break away from them. Her work, characterised by an overflowing and performative use of language, continues for this occasion with an investigation that she has been developing in recent years focused on shipping systems and their connection with the body, jurisdictional language, its verbal tenses and its violence.
For this exhibition the artist creates a choreography of artworks that operates as a desire to escape from the semantics of the capitalist system through three pieces that make up an installation. Two of them are presented in the form of backlit light boxes on which we find images and texts that can only be read against the light, that is, they need an external agent to be deciphered. While in one of the pieces the artist uses tracing paper to create a narrative, in the other the story is told through handmade watermarks on white paper. Pagès chooses to record her narrative on these materials that the bureaucracy uses to copy and legitimise, thus dismantling its strategies and rendering them vulnerable.
The story is completed with a third mobile and changing element that extends throughout the gallery space in the form of laser lights that are projected onto the walls. This high-tech material contrasts with the more manual and almost medieval tradition of the tracings and watermarks of the other pieces, creating a hybrid and disturbing space. The lasers file and project on the walls drawings created by the artist, functioning both as ephemeral graffiti and as a mobile archive made with light signifiers that travel and fragment through the space simultaneously.
This combination of choreographic texts presented in different formats results in a surplus of signifiers within the gallery that interacts with the visitor’s body, interrupting its time and breaking its linearity. This fracture is where Pagès operates, seeking to create a constellation of fugitive works, which are always trying to break away from a system in which they have not learned to exist.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
