Index welcomes you to “Who Makes The World Go Round”, a film program curated by Nour Helou. The screenings are presented in conversation with the ongoing exhibition Claudia Pagès Rabal: ALJUB.
The filmmakers in this program center the voices of those impacted by colonial violence who write back into a history that sought to write them out. Indeed, the film program invalidates the spatial and temporal logic of imposition and erasure central to colonial superposition. The program asserts that the moving image can make visible those individuals and actions that occupation forces try to suppress or erase from official narratives and history.
“Who Makes The World Go Round” will start with a viewing of a trilogy of shorts by Indian-American filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri: ‘At Home But Not At Home’ (2019), ‘Letter From Your Far-Off Country’ (2020), and ‘Golden Jubilee’ (2021). In these films, Sanzgiri departs from a close look at his family’s history in Goa, India, a city colonized by the Portuguese, where violence was repeatedly enacted by the colonizers and resisted by freedom fighters. The case of Goa is hardly unique, which the filmmaker makes apparent by recounting moments of global solidarity and resistance.
The film program ends with Walid Raad and Jayce Salloum’s feature film ‘Up to the South’ (Talaeen a’al Junuub) (1993), a documentary assembling interviews of Southern Lebanon citizens. The film examines the conditions, politics, and economics of South Lebanon in 1993, which are revealed to not be much different from today’s reality in 2025.
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A formative part of Index’ history was the Index Magazine, published from 1992 to 1998, in Swedish and English. During its existence Index magazine was one of the platforms active in the internationalization of the Swedish art context. First with the subtitle “Contemporary Scandinavian Images” and then “Contemporary Art and Culture”, Index was a physical magazine, reflecting on key subjects, artists and exhibitions of the 90s. In 1999, Index and the magazine “Siksi: The Nordic art review” was combined and they together became “Nu: The Nordic Art Review”. During the same moment Index was established as a Foundation in 1998 (after being a gallery space run by Fotograficentrum, a non-profit member association of Swedish photographers) to become an art institution.
Paula Alvear Hermano, who did her internship at Index this summer, did research on the Index Magazine and was also generous to scan and digitized the archived collection of issues. All these issues of Index Magazine will be made available on Index’ website during this fall. Now you can read the third issue of 1992 here. More On view at Index 
Last weeks of Claudia Pagès Rabal: ALJUB. The exhibition is open every Thursday to Sunday until 19 October.
“Aljub” is a peculiar word, Arabic in origin and not commonly used in Pagès Rabal’s native Catalan. It translates to cistern, a tank for storing water, which becomes both an idea and a real object defining the exhibition. Pagès Rabal’s video installation Aljubs i Grups was co-produced with Index when it was first shown at the European Nomadic Biennial Manifesta 15 in Barcelona, and it now anchors her exhibition in Stockholm. The exhibition also presents a series of paintings and many processual documents (the screenplay, notes and small production drawings) showing the complexity of the interactions and decisions leading up to the finished piece. More Index in press
Svenska Dagbladet: Rita Kristola about Claudia Pagès Rabal: ALJUB
Kunstkritikk: Milou Allerholm about September Sessions Frieze: Interview with Claudia Pagès Rabal Exhibition
Current: Claudia Pagès Rabal: ALJUB
11 September–19 October 2025 Preview: Liberation Radio 7 November 2025–25 January 2026 |
