Thomas Dane Gallery has premiered Pasodoble (2026), a new single-screen video installation by Paul Pfeiffer, at its 3 Duke Street space in London, on view from October 13 to December 19, 2026. The work takes as its subject bullfighting, one of the world's most enduring and contested public spectacles.

Filmed on a bull-breeding farm outside Seville, inside a historic bullring in Bilbao and within a broadcast van parked outside it, Pasodoble moves across three sites in a digressive, nonlinear form. Pfeiffer deliberately turns away from the climactic moments of the corrida and toward the labour, sound, architecture and broadcasting that sustain the ritual — the interlocking systems that frame, circulate and perpetuate it.

At stake is how collective acts of witness and imaging, wrapped in intense sonic structures organised around violent acts, produce feeling and coded meaning. Treating the ritual's form as its meaning, the work dissects how that form is elaborated across the sites and practices that keep bullfighting's choreography of life and death alive.

Pasodoble extends Pfeiffer's long-standing examination of spectacle and mediation — from the speech choirs of Live from Neverland (2006) to the military music of The Saints (2007) — treating mass public rituals and their architectures as a lens for questions of spectatorship, power and collective feeling. Born in Honolulu in 1966, Pfeiffer lives and works in New York, and his work is held by institutions including MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim and LACMA. He recently concluded a survey that travelled from MOCA Los Angeles to the Guggenheim Bilbao and MCA Chicago.