Last weekend we hosted an evening of commensality, exploring ways of sharing the table, eating and the stories behind food. This time, the focus was on bread.
20 breads, all shapes, all backgrounds. No cutlery, no other food, only bread, water, and wine. Breaking it together felt as a journey through layers of flavours and stories, each tied to a person, a memory.
Thank you to @liangjung_chen for supporting the evening with an edible installation and helping shape the space. Thank you @mark.otog for helping this come true. And thank you to everyone who attended. There will be more soon.
last weekend i had the pleasure of supporting my talented studio neighbour ola otog with her bread-themed supper club. we collected abandoned shelves from the street outside our studio and repurposed them into a dining table.
the bread i brought to the table was a series of ‘free diving donuts’, attempting to capture the liquid form within boiling oil 💦
thank you everyone for joining us — more to come x
📸 ola, mark and me
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8 May 2025
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Five Defence Towers⠀
by Claudia Pagès Rabal
curated by Olivia Aherne and Oscar Abdulla
at Chisenhale Gallery
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Continuing her exploration along the Silk Road, Pagès’ new commission locates five defence towers built throughout Catalonia’s former borderlands. During the 9th and 10th centuries, European forces established a military buffer zone called the Hispanic March. These historic frontiers of legal, economic, political, and cultural power struggle are the starting point for Pagès’ new moving image work, which spans scripted dialogue, choreographed dance, light, and sound.
Shot on a 360-degree camera and within the black box space of a theatre, The Night of Five Defence Towers tells a tale of surveillance, control, settlement, and refuge across five acts. While a central narrator plots a cartography of the surrounding terrain and its historical bearings, four other performers seek shelter at the foot of a tower.
A camera wanders above and below the performers creating pervasive and panoptical viewpoints while also mimicking the verticality and violence of the watchful towers. Dreamlike sequences of dialogue and dance explore questions of national identity, the construction of political ideology, and the associated myths that shape belief systems.
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@claudiapagesrabal@chisenhalegallery@oliviaaherne@oscar__abdulla
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