The Blanket * Portable Memory and Ritual Affection

 

The Blanket is not an object but a ritual device. Across Lloveras’s Unstable Installation Series (2020–2025), a modest blanket reappears in shifting roles: draped over abandoned furniture, hung from gallery rafters, wrapped around bodies in snow or sun. Always slightly familiar, never precisely the same, the Blanket is a socioplastic instrument of care, warmth, and shared presence. It offers no image but insists on touch. Its material memory gathers tension through repetition and travel, accumulating gestures rather than meanings. Deployed as a situational fixer, the Blanket resists spectacle. Its power lies in the banal, the reused, the folded. Within the canon of Socioplastics, it recalls the golden emergency blanket of El Dorado, or the blue bags, as a device of affection over assertion. It operates through intimacy, not installation. The work thrives in liminality—between action and documentation, object and warmth, art and use. When the blanket is left behind in a museum or domestic space, it becomes an open invitation: not a finished work, but a continuing question of how art can hold. The Blanket circulates without borders, carried between exhibitions, performances, and private rooms. It echoes rituals of migration, shelter, and mothering. Its softness conceals a political gravity: in rejecting fixity, it affirms embodied care as a valid sculptural medium. (Lloveras, A. 2010–2025) antolloveras.blogspot.com - blanket sculpture, socioplastics, affective infrastructure, portable memory, ritual affection, situation-based art, care as medium, unstable installation series, united nations of art, nomadic ritual, domestic performance, textile fixers