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Claudia Pagès

Gerundi circular

Gerundi circular
2021
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Claudia Pagès’ mesmerizing video installation Gerundi circular (2021) revolves around global maritime routes, legal jargon, and the relentless flow of commerce and people that has characterized capitalism in action. Filmed in a seamless 360-degree loop, the footage blends the rhythmic gestures of three performers and layers of handwritten texts into a series of music-video sequences.

The panoramic narrative is set around three distinctive and interconnected sites related to the past and present of Barcelona’s commercial port: the ship-shaped business hub of the World Trade Center, the 19th-century customs building, and the harbour breakwater. Completing the installation is a cardboard carpet printed with snippets of phrases derived from law manuals in which Pagès mixes up gerunds (a verb form that does not inflect gender or number) and considers bodies as both objects and actants. Gerundi circular bears witness to the logistical intricacies of the city as a seemingly frictionless interface between the open space of the sea and manmade infrastructures, behaviours, and languages.
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original title
Gerundi circular
registration number
R.6286
date
2021
fonds
MACBA Collection. Government of Catalonia long-term loan
media
360º video, colour, sound, 14 min 50 s and silkscreen on cardboard
edition number
Edició d'1 + P.A.
Copyright
© Claudia Pagès
translated title
Gerundi circular
year of acquisition
2022
type of object
Media installation
dimensions
Screen: 84 x 152 cm (perimeter)
credits
MACBA Collection. Government of Catalonia long-term loan. National Collection of Contemporary Art. Work produced by MACBA
original title
Gerundi circular
translated title
Gerundi circular
registration number
R.6286
date
2021
year of acquisition
2022
fonds
MACBA Collection. Government of Catalonia long-term loan
type of object
Media installation
media
360º video, colour, sound, 14 min 50 s and silkscreen on cardboard
dimensions
Screen: 84 x 152 cm (perimeter)
edition number
Edició d'1 + P.A.
credits
MACBA Collection. Government of Catalonia long-term loan. National Collection of Contemporary Art. Work produced by MACBA
Copyright
© Claudia Pagès
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