CATALONIA IN VENICE: CLAUDIA PAGÈS RABAL

A collection of fifteenth-century paper watermarks are the core of an immersive installation that projects them onto the walls through lasers and LED screens, accompanied by a soundscape. Historically marks of origin and authenticity, these impressions, visible only when backlit, reveal the infrastructures of power: paper circulated alongside ideas, contracts and codes as a tool to exercise authority, dominion and justice. In a time dominated by geopolitical conflicts and migration crises, Paper Tears outlines a disquieting continuity between the systems of control of the past and those of the present, concealed – as the French expression en filigrane suggests – just beneath the surface.