EL DORADO is a migratory object: a single golden emergency blanket passed from body to body, sculpted through contact, time, and shared space. Conceived in Madrid in 2013 by Anto Lloveras, this socioplastic gesture emerges at the intersection of affection, material minimalism, and performative encounter, resisting the monumentality typically associated with sculpture by embracing ephemerality and circulation as form (Lloveras, 2013). Each participant receives the same object—not a copy, but the original—which takes shape anew in relation to their posture, mood, presence, and the photograph that documents them. The object remains light (twenty grams), yet charged with the symbolic density of survival, intimacy, and collective imagination. Referencing and reversing the myth of El Dorado, here gold is not found but shared, not hidden but made visible, not extracted but offered—a temporary fold of care. The work features artists such as RafaFans, Maite Cajaraville, Monoperro, Paula Lloveras, María Enríquez, Juan Barte, Vic Snake, Giuseppe Zamora, and Hectruso, among others, each inscribed within the same sculptural loop. As part of HIPERVÍNCULOS, a broader network of relational exhibitions, EL DORADO functions not as an edition but as a living rhetorical device, where sculpture is displaced from the object into the gesture of shared proximity.
AFFECTION IS FUEL
Lloveras, A. (2013) El Dorado – Escultura Socioplástica
EL DORADO es una exploración sobre el peso del vínculo. Elegí un material ligero para abrazar directamente los cuerpos, que la escultura fuera tan ligera que no pareciera escultura sino gesto. El dorado es un concepto, una idea, con la que fantaseaban los conquistadores, aquí se invierte y se localiza en terreno conocido, en la ciudad de origen. Los veinte gramos de material se asocian a cada cuerpo de forma diferente, generando una escultura única para cada artista, que se relaciona directamente con los otros al formar parte de la serie. EL DORADO es una escultura social.
MARÍA ENRÍQUEZ
RAFAFANS
LUJÁN MARCOS
MARISA CAMINOS
POL PARRHEISA
GIUSEPPE ZAMORA
OMAR JEREZ
MAITE CAJARAVILLE
PAULA LLOVEAS
ANDRÉS MONTES