The series Endemic Monochromes articulates an urban chromatic synthesis where the city emerges not only as a physical environment but as a living, vibrating matrix of monochromatic intensities, captured and ordered through a procedural and fragmentary installation strategy that derives from the intersection of three key series developed between 2012 and 2013: first, the synthetic reduction of TWINS, a dispersed multiform installation in which the city itself becomes an immense hyperplastic entity, condensed through dual-image modules captured in cities such as London, Madrid, Marseille, Nice, Basel, Berlin and Mexico City; second, the radical use of the urban object as monochrome unit, extending prior experiments in LAPIEZA and performative collaborations with Paula Lloveras into dynamic, moving-image contexts; third, the application of the 12X file matrix, previously explored in the FILMADOS and HIPERVÍNCULOS series, serving here as a structural and conceptual chassis. The visual result is a dense grid of double frames, where everyday objects, walls, wires, pipes, flowers, clothes or oranges are captured in meticulous pairs, echoing and multiplying the affective power of colour beyond its decorative function. These “sociochromatic particles” are not isolated aesthetic events but autonomous agents in an unstable composition, embedded in the fluctuating plasticity of urban life, where repetition, symmetry and variation generate silent rhythmic dialogues. As in COPOS, the camera operates like a spoon, gathering chromatic fragments that are then serialised, displayed and recombined as open, non-linear series. Monochromy functions here as a method of condensation and focus, revealing the overlooked tonal consistencies in public space and treating the city not as a neutral background but as a saturated sensorium. Each captured object, each twin image, suspends the ordinary, converting mundane surfaces into intense chromatic statements. The installation’s latent modularity allows for infinite expansion and rearrangement, where each visual unit retains autonomy while entering in tension with others, forming a hyperplastic topography of hue, mass and proximity. Ultimately, Endemic Monochromes proposes a critical shift from the documentary gaze to a socio‑plastic lens, where the politics of perception are refracted through the pulse of colour itself.
Lloveras, A. (2014) Monocromías Endémicas: Síntesis Hiperplástica e Intersección. LAPIEZA Art Series.
https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2014/01/monocromias-endemicas-sintesis.html
La cromática dispersa de la ciudad se condensa en esta instalación seriada. Cada partícula suma a la instalación. Al igual que en la serie COPOS, la cámara es la cuchara que recoge los fragmentos, que se ordenan y se posicionan en series abiertas. La monocromía en las instalaciones es una forma latente desde 2010, donde cada objeto inestable en la instalación procesual es una autonomía. Su relación con el resto de piezas es un diálogo de peso y forma.
