Paul Pfeiffer: Pasodoble

Thomas Dane Gallery premieres a new single screen video installation by Paul Pfeiffer: Pasodoble (2026). Filmed across three interconnected sites–a bull breeding farm outside Seville, an historic bullring in Bilbao, and a mobile broadcast van outside that bullring–the work traces the networks that sustain one of the world’s most enduring and contested public spectacles: bullfighting. Together, these three sites form an interconnected ecology in which labour, performance and mediation sustain “a regime of sensory immersion that orchestrates perception.”[1] In Pasodoble, Pfeiffer turns his attention to the structures and practices that frame, circulate and perpetuate the ritual event of the corrida. The bullring emerges as a place where the visceral and the theatrical converge, a space in which gestures, audiences and architecture combine to produce a complexly orchestrated collective experience.