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Socioplastics examines how architecture can operate beyond construction: as a system for organising knowledge, structuring relations, and giving conceptual form durable public presence.

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Anto Lloveras

Theorist working at the intersection of architecture, art, and urban systems.
Founder of Socioplastics, a transdisciplinary framework in which architecture operates as epistemic infrastructure rather than representation. His work moves from object-based production toward protocol-driven research, treating theory as construction, publication as spatial practice, and pedagogy as structural transmission. Through LAPIEZA, the independent platform he founded in Madrid, he has developed exhibitions and research initiatives internationally, advancing a model of cultural agency and epistemic sovereignty.
WORKS

· Fireworks as Hyperplastic Writing

· The Word — 1000 Unstable Positions

· Urban Taxidermy

· Ephemeral Luminosities

· 4×4 Green Apple

· Andador Civic Ground

· Swan Icon and Commons

· Entre Comillas

· Red Bag

· Flipas

· Spaceships Series

· Protistas

· The Road to Restoration

· Uddebo — Doing / Not Doing

· The Fifth City

· From Mirador to Relational Repair

· Fishdish

· Melancholia Whitening

· Urbanas — Classical Order

· Blue Bags

· Hyperlinked Clouds

· Husøy Arena

· Symmetry and Difference

· CREP Cultural Device

· Thermodynamic Essays

· Minor Letter e

· Unstable Love

· Open Air Gallery

· Taxidermy III

· Fast Heartbeat

· Urban Palimpsest

· Art Meets Fashion

· The Fishbowl

· Blitz Beton

· Conversational Shelter

· Red Line

· Never Alone Lemon Protocols

· Blue Pants

· Semiotics of the Cloud

· A Mound of Rubble

· Broth Ritual

· Threads

· Twins on a Slope

· Landart Museum

· Yellow Bag

· Velázquez 100

· CJCM Madrid Reform

· El Dorado

· Crushed Memories

· Walking the Commons

· Recreo Ritual

· The Light in Provence

· Restoran Splendid

· Positional Essays

· LAPIEZA Madrid

· Qualitätskontrolle III

· Pedagogy as Praxis

· El Palmeral

· Easy Rider

· Agonistic Frictions

· TheWoodWay

· Digital Prosumer

· Snakeskin Architecture

· Exquisite Mechanics

· re-(t)exHile

· The Blanket

· Bordados Sisters

· Forest Threshold

· Cosmotidiano

· Purple Legs

· Transdisciplinary Entanglement

· Modular Domesticity

· Hidden Forces

· YouTube Breakfast

· Twilight Atlas

· Rhizomatic Vanguard

· Chromatic Symphonies

· Ruralism

· Mineral Choreographies

· Double Sided

· Relational Topography of Provence

· Rhizomatic Vanguard II

· Pop Affect

· Fjord Visions

· Pan de Neve

· FoodArt Cádiz

· Psycho-Environmental Matrix

· Engineering ARCO’05

· Venus

· Green Briefcase

· Fragile Urban Anatomies

· Trans-Lighthouse Manifesto

· MUDAS

· Kingdom Series

· Spanish Bar

· Duna-Dunaj Symposium

· Re-Framing Horizons

· Trole Building

· Small Orange Tag

· Architecture of Affection

EL PALMERAL * Sustainable Neighbourhood Manifesto (Lloveras & Lloveras * Urbanas, 2017)

EL PALMERAL * Sustainable Neighbourhood Manifesto (Lloveras & Lloveras * Urbanas, 2017)

El Palmeral received an honourable mention in the 2017 COAM Urbanas competition under the theme Manzana Verde – Sustainable Neighbourhood in Málaga. Designed by Paula Lloveras Caminos and Antonio Lloveras Caminos, the project envisions a dense, walkable, mixed-use neighbourhood anchored in environmental responsibility, historical continuity, and social cohesion. At its core, El Palmeral proposes a city that requires no fossil fuels, based on efficient land use, compact housing typologies, and a focus on green infrastructure and low-carbon construction. The urban layout integrates 11 tower buildings (up to 18 floors) surrounded by low-rise housing, urban gardens, shaded boulevards, and collective open spaces, fostering both environmental performance and community life. Presented at the Urban Center at Morlaco in Málaga and published in Revista Arquitectura COAM 373 Manifiesto, the project stresses the value of traditional urbanism, historical street networks, and adaptable public-private interfaces. Its diagrams explore emissions reduction, building typologies, and flexible modularity, advocating for a city model that is sustainable, inclusive, and resilient.

re-(t)exHile IV Lagos Art and Architecture Biennial * Resistance in the Afterlife of Cloth

re-(t)exHile IV Lagos Art and Architecture Biennial * Resistance in the Afterlife of Cloth

Presented at the 4th Lagos Art and Architecture Biennial in February 2024, re-(t)exHile occupies the symbolic space of Tafawa Balewa Square, a former colonial racecourse turned civic arena, to address themes of sovereignty, displacement and material memory; curated by Folakunle Oshun and Kathryn Weir, the Biennial challenges conventional exhibition models, favouring open-ended and collaborative formats where artworks act as generative gestures rather than final forms, and in this context, re-(t)exHile materialises as a relational installation composed of discarded textiles, ephemeral structures and found materials that trace the movement of global waste across African territories; created by Martinka Bobrikova, Óscar De Carmen, Adebola Badmus, María Alejandra Gatti and Anto Lloveras, the work is informed by prior field research, a photographic archive by Mide King, and digital storytelling, forming a living document that explores refuge, exile and repair through the lens of textile circulation and environmental violence; more than a static piece, it acts as a critical fabric, stitching together postcolonial narratives and the overlooked economies of secondhand clothing in Lagos.

TRIENAL * I-II-III-IV-V * SERIES

TRIENAL ***** I-II-III-IV-V ***** SERIES

URBANAS * TRANSURBANISM (PHOTOGRAPHY)

CAPA * Hegemonic Dissolution through Synthetic Cognitive Morphologies

CAPA * Hegemonic Dissolution through Synthetic Cognitive Morphologies

CAPA is a transdisciplinary platform rooted in agonistic theory, where philosophers, theorists, and artists co-develop micro-essays, graphic concepts, and rhizomatic dialogues. Emerging from LAPIEZA, it fosters asymmetric, non-linear conversations guided by thinkers like Foucault, Deleuze, Bourdieu and others, generating a cloud-based archive (BRAIN) of synthetic ideas. Each concept (CAPA 001–999) blends epistemology, visual language, and symbolic capital, creating a replicable, open-source model for intellectual cross-pollination and narrative experimentation.

BLUE PANTS

BLUE PANTS

The repeated motif of the blue trousers—sometimes worn, sometimes arranged on the sand, sometimes painted into a landscape—anchors a body that is both present and absent, material and spectral. The garment becomes a stand-in, a proxy through which identity is negotiated in unstable contexts, shifting from performance to installation, from drawing to landscape action.

YOUTBE BREAKFAST * http://youtubebreakfast.blogspot.com

YOUTBE BREAKFAST * http://youtubebreakfast.blogspot.com

YouTube Breakfast: Rhizomatic Pedagogy and the Decentralized Classroom * Disruption as Methodology in the Socioplastic Network

Everything Changes in This Place in Malasaña

Everything Changes in This Place in Malasaña

Imagine a place where installations undergo constant changes, where every artistic work, exhibition, or performance leaves its mark. LAPIEZA embodies this concept. It is a container and a platform for “relational art.” LAPIEZA is a collective work, with periodic performances called “mutations.” Every week, an artist contributes a recently executed piece, which is created live. The audience can witness the realization of the artwork in real time and interact with the environment.

Stage Series

*Double Sided* is a conceptual dance and film series by Anto Lloveras and Mateo Feijoo, exploring themes of duality and minimalism through real-time, two-channel performances. Each movement echoes the previous one but varies subtly, emphasizing the ephemeral nature of process-based art. Inspired by Beckett, 1960s American minimalism, Erwin Wurm’s sculptures, and Paul Preciado’s philosophy, the series uses minimal scenic elements and standardized wardrobe to focus purely on bodily presence and rhythm, creating an aesthetic of deliberate simplicity and raw expression.

RESTORAN SPLENDID ___ SOCIOPLASTICS BY LLOVERAS - WITH ::::: BRIGITTE BRAND, KOSIA, RUDI BENETIK, ME

Restoran Splendid is a site-specific socioplastic installation by Anto Lloveras that redefines traditional hierarchies in visual representation. The concept centers around the idea of equality and shared presence, where each artist in the Rabbit Island residence occupies every position within a series of eight photographs. By rotating the artists through identical settings, Lloveras eliminates the notion of a fixed protagonist, ensuring that every individual takes a turn at the forefront and the background. This structured repetition blurs distinctions between subject and context, producing a visual and social equilibrium where all participants are equally highlighted and obscured. The effect is a looped, democratic tableau that resists singular narratives, celebrating the fluidity and interdependence of each contributor’s role. This approach, termed socioplastics, engages the viewer in a contemplation of communal presence, challenging the typical focus on individual prominence in art.

EASY RIDER

EASY RIDER

Inspired by the free-spirited ethos of motorcycling culture, the building is conceived as a "street garage" — an infrastructure that integrates private living with communal systems of mobility and recreation. The architectural layout takes on a dynamic zig-zag form, optimising solar exposure and allowing for efficient spatial sequencing across floors. Plans include shared patios and multi-functional rooftop terraces, enhancing community interaction. The ground floor and vertical core are configured as shared circulatory spaces that mimic urban streets, painted in bold graphic lines to simulate roadways, further blurring the boundaries between public and private space.

KINGDOM SERIES

KINGDOM SERIES

A small geometric removal in moss and leaves, almost invisible. The work resists monumentality, existing only as fragile alignment between body, ground and season. Quickly reclaimed by fungi and weather, it proposes subtraction as care, a solitary practice of listening to landscape and its transient, biotopic rhythms.

Doube Sided — Residence on an Island

Doube Sided — Residence on an Island

Double Sided operates as a diptych in motion—two parallel bodies, two lines of thought, approaching without collapsing. What emerges is a legible scenic language built from graphic syntagms, everyday objects, and subtle sonic fields that translate the affective texture of the ordinary. The project advances through serial actions. Each body composes its own sequence while remaining porous to the presence of the other. This dual focus—autonomy and resonance—structures a didactic system that is rhythmic, self-regulating, and experimental. Stability on one side; intelligibility in the fold. The scene becomes a testing ground where elements are distinguished, pruned, and reassembled without redundancy.

RED LINE

RED LINE

PORTABLE SCULPTURE SERIES

ART MEETS FASHION * SETS AND CLIPS 2011 MADRID LAPIEZA

ART MEETS FASHION * SETS AND CLIPS 2011 MADRID LAPIEZA

Art Meets Fashion is a hybrid visual project where ephemeral garments, sculptural fashion and urban scenography converge. Part of LAPIEZA’s Unstable Installation Series, it reimagines the body as a mobile platform for site-responsive installations. Shot in Madrid in 2011, the project offers looped clips and striking imagery where models interact with precarious materials and symbolic props. The result is a poetic critique of aesthetic systems, consumption, and identity, framed under the concept of Socioplastics.

Bordados Sisters * The Sonic Legacy of El Intruso

Bordados Sisters * The Sonic Legacy of El Intruso

SOUND IS KEY

THEWOODWAY Norway with Fredrik Lund @ NTNU

THEWOODWAY Norway with Fredrik Lund @ NTNU

Video series documenting a pedagogical architecture experiment in Norway (NTNU, 2008), reveals the power of collaborative construction as both educational strategy and spatial research. The project involved eighty first-year architecture students building a one-to-one wooden superstructure, generating eighteen distinct spatial concepts under the guidance of faculty and professionals. Filmed and edited as short episodic reflections, the series frames architecture not as static output but as a processual practice, grounded in participation, negotiation, and continuous interpretation.

Designing the Urban Grid of ARCO’05

Designing the Urban Grid of ARCO’05

This project, developed under the @TABLE unit, functioned as a temporary city that challenged the rigid structures of the traditional art fair. By utilizing industrial materials such as shipping containers, wooden battens, and DM boards, the design addressed the friction between global commerce and the need for human-centric social nodes.

R E A D

08 | Series * SYSTEMIC REPETITION (Articulating Practice as Ecologies)
Art as refuge: A glance at the 4th Lagos Biennial by Tony Agbapuonwu ___ Le Quotidien de L´Art Edition ___ No. 2774
Threads of Meaning ______ The Emotional, Political, and Healing Power of Contemporary Textile Art
Bar Español * Spanish Bar :::::: Hasta fin de existencias
HIDDEN FORCES ::::::::::::::::::::: DUNES AND SUPREMATISM_________CÁDIZ
IV Art and Architecture BIENNIAL ________ Lagos, Nigeria 2024 __________TEXTILE PAVILION_______Circular Economy_________The Outsiders________ Acción Cultural Española___ OCA Norway____G.A.S. Foundation_____Embajada Española en Abuja_____ LAPIEZA ART SERIES
NATURE BOY
06 | Exhibitions * ATMOSPHERIC TENSIONS (Biennials, Triennials, and Museums)
DYNAMIC OBJECTS
ESCALINATA

Mineral Choreographies

The Anatomy of a Rustic Wall * Organic Assemblies and the Harmony of Irregularity

Microscale Green Infrastructures as Everyday Therapeutic Landscapes: The Restorative Potential of Sm

Microscale Green Infrastructures as Everyday Therapeutic Landscapes: The Restorative Potential of Sm

Small urban green spaces in central Madrid offer restorative benefits closely linked to vegetation, safety, and time spent on-site. Using psychometric scales, the study finds that these areas promote mental restoration, especially when designed to support social interaction and environmental quality. The results underscore the importance of integrating green micro-infrastructures into dense urban settings as part of public health and urban planning strategies.

Red Bag * Relational Infrastructure

Red Bag * Relational Infrastructure

Exploring social practice, relational aesthetics, and urban interventionism.

LAPIEZA * GALERÍA EXPERIMENTAL

LAPIEZA * GALERÍA EXPERIMENTAL

ARTÍCULO EL VIAJERO DIARIO ELPAÍS

SUPERNOVA

BORDADOS SISTER * EL INTRUSO 2024

BACK IN PROVENCE * CORRENS 2019

BACK IN PROVENCE * CORRENS 2019

The Relational Topography of Provence: Hegelian Synthesis in the Socioplastics of Anto Lloveras * A Dialectic of Landscape and Body

House and Dome: Minimal Architecture as Conversational Sculpture

House and Dome: Minimal Architecture as Conversational Sculpture

Belonging to the Minimal Architecture Series, exemplifies an aesthetic of radical simplicity, where the structure is reduced to the most elemental gestures: lines of bamboo and threads barely outlining the memory of a shelter. What emerges is not a model of construction but a diagram of inhabitation, a fragile articulation between geometry and void. Its architectural vocabulary resists solidity; instead, it thrives on instability, exposing the precariousness of all spatial definitions. Presented within the context of the Unstable Installation Series at Zuccato Gallery in Poreč, Croatia, and in dialogue with Danino Bozic under the curatorial direction of Jerica Ziherl, the work functions as both installation and conversation. Here, architecture becomes performance, a medium for negotiation and encounter rather than permanence.

VELÁZQUEZ 100 SITUATION ___ PLANCTON * Situación Velázquez 100 * The Architecture of Compression

VELÁZQUEZ 100 SITUATION ___ PLANCTON * Situación Velázquez 100 * The Architecture of Compression

Conceptual art action centered on temporal and situational art practices, where artists intervene in a defined space for three hours. The project critiques the traditional boundaries between the artist, artwork, and audience, emphasizing collaborative creation and the transformation of personal artistic narratives into a collective memory.

COSMOTIDIANO

COSMOTIDIANO

A "mutable collective habitat"—a temporary occupation that addresses the friction between institutional space and the raw vitality of collaborative practice.

Unstable Light * Entangling the Social Fabric

Unstable Light * Entangling the Social Fabric

A transdisciplinary investigation where the body, the light, and the net converge into a single "Social Sculpture". Activated in the landscape of Provence, this work visualizes the invisible threads of collective memory and human rights. It is a process-based investigation into how shared materials can bridge cultural gaps and foster sustainable coexistence through a continuous state of mutation.

HUSØY ARENA //// SOCIAL CLUB /// NORWAY / 2012 * WITH FREDRIK LUND / PAULA LLOVERAS

HUSØY ARENA //// SOCIAL CLUB /// NORWAY / 2012 * WITH FREDRIK LUND / PAULA LLOVERAS

Husøy Arena * From Playing Field to Civic Surface

THE LIGHT IN PROVENCE

THE LIGHT IN PROVENCE

On form, color and affection - situational performance -

OPEN AIR GALLERY / NORWAY COLLABORATION WITH FREDRIK LUND / PAULA LLOVERAS -

OPEN AIR GALLERY / NORWAY COLLABORATION WITH FREDRIK LUND / PAULA LLOVERAS -

Nordic Landscape and Dialogues of Wood and Site

Teaching as a Critical Dissemination Tool

Teaching as a Critical Dissemination Tool

The NTNU Architecture Masters Series (2019) represents a pivotal intersection where academic instruc

Landart Fjord Museum * Architecture as Land Art * The Museum as Ecological Interface

Landart Fjord Museum * Architecture as Land Art * The Museum as Ecological Interface

Designed to merge with the forested fjordscape of Hardanger, Norway, the Landart Museum presents a refined example of low-impact architectural integration, combining energy efficiency, material responsibility, and experiential depth. The building minimises energy consumption across all systems through passive design strategies: its structure, primarily raised on pillars, reduces land occupation and environmental disruption while promoting air circulation and visual permeability. Constructed with locally sourced timber, it echoes regional construction traditions and reduces embodied energy.

RECREO SPACESHIP __MOVEMENTS FOR AN UNSTABLE SYMPHONIC RITUAL - SERIES 118 - 1389-1397 SERIES 117 -

RECREO SPACESHIP __MOVEMENTS FOR AN UNSTABLE SYMPHONIC RITUAL - SERIES 118 - 1389-1397 SERIES 117 -

Recreo Art Space is a dynamic 100 m² venue for interdisciplinary projects blending art, performance, and spatial exploration. “Movements for an Unstable Symphonic Ritual” series navigates themes of fluidity, ritual, and transformation. The evolving installations—spanning several series—invite collaboration and spontaneous creation, bridging the gap between artistic experimentation and shared space.

Ecocritical Mediations in the Duna Series

Ecocritical Mediations in the Duna Series

The Sunflower Fields art residency in Bokros, Slovakia, part of the Supernatural Series, is an ongoing project that integrates nature and local culture. The residency, hosted by artist Yuri Dólan, provides a collaborative space for artists to engage with rural landscapes, working in a historical farm setting surrounded by sunflowers, cornfields, and the Danube River. The event includes installations, lectures, and performances, emphasizing relational and situational art. Central themes include temporality, nature, and context-based narratives, resulting in exhibitions and film productions.

    KUHN AS TOOL — SERIES
  

1450 ★ Cinema
1449 ★ Sculpture
1448 ★ Dance
1447 ★ Architecture
1446 ★ Music
1445 ★ Literature
1444 ★ Urbanism
1443 ★ Thought
1442 ★ Photography
1441 ★ Painting

ICONIC BUILDING NEXT TO TRAIN TRACKS __ 24 ATELIER UNITS. MADRID M-40

ICONIC BUILDING NEXT TO TRAIN TRACKS __ 24 ATELIER UNITS. MADRID M-40

The Trole Building, designed by Anto Lloveras and Alberto Sánchez Cabezudo, is an iconic structure located in the south of Madrid. Initially an old coffee factory, it was transformed into a modern office space with a striking facade of white zinc panels. The design emphasized creating a contemporary aesthetic in contrast to the surrounding brick buildings. The project required complex planning and adjustments to comply with local regulations, including fire safety measures. The building’s minimalist exterior and clean lines make it a standout in its industrial context.

The Digital Prosumer and the Archive of the Connected Subject * YouTube Breakfast as an Epistemic L

The Digital Prosumer and the Archive of the Connected Subject * YouTube Breakfast as an Epistemic L

Already in 2009, Anto Lloveras presented YouTube Breakfast at a doctoral seminar at UAM, focusing on how the accumulation of video content online is a form of collective intelligence. The workshop highlighted that historical film archives, videography, and recorded conferences, once accessible only in museums, are now part of a digital “new school” accessible to everyone on platforms like YouTube. This session emphasized the need to engage with this vast digital knowledge as a form of public memory and evolving cultural practice.

FRAMING THE LANDSCAPE

FRAMING THE LANDSCAPE

Fredrik Lund’s playful 2012 visors—wearable frames crafted from cardboard—resurface as prescient tools for spatial empathy; once worn in NTNU’s studio and Oslo’s landscapes, they transformed bodies into mobile apertures, merging architecture, performance, and critique; these early experiments, blending poetry, pedagogy, and ecology, now echo in Lund’s hybrid teaching and Some Houses, where built forms mirror terrain with tactile humility; in a world shaped by AI and climate urgency, Lund’s socioplastic ethos invites us to wear architecture, not as armor, but as dialogue.

Small Orange Tag * Sculpture

Small Orange Tag * Sculpture

Translational Tactics for a Weightless Aesthetic

The Rhizomatic Vanguard * Relational Synthesis of LAPIEZA

The Rhizomatic Vanguard * Relational Synthesis of LAPIEZA

An analytical critique of LAPIEZA, exploring its digital network integration, relational aesthetics, and the mutative avant-garde.

TAXIDERMY I _________________LONDON 2015

TAXIDERMY I _________________LONDON 2015

THE CITY IS AN ANIMAL

The Semiotics of the Cloud: * Active Socioplastics in the Frozen Heat Series

The Semiotics of the Cloud: * Active Socioplastics in the Frozen Heat Series

The Architecture of the Invisible * Satellite in the LLLL Light Social Sculpture Series

MEAT — Unstable Installation Series

MEAT — Unstable Installation Series

EL DORADO * Socioplastic Sculpture (Madrid, 2013) AFFECTION IS FUEL

EL DORADO * Socioplastic Sculpture (Madrid, 2013) AFFECTION IS FUEL

The Twenty-Gram Monument * Sculpting Shared Proximity

PAN DE NEVE

PAN DE NEVE

Pan de Neve proposes a scene-as-score structure rooted in minimalism, animism and real-time improvisation, drawing from the prior project Sons-Nús – Catro Nubes but expanding its scope through a refined sensorial dramaturgy, the performance unfolds across ten sound fragments—or places—activated by five bodies on stage

MUDAS - Mexico City

MUDAS - Mexico City

The MUDAS installations consist of a single fresh banana leaf pinned to the wall, which gradually dries out, changing color and releasing a distinct aroma that fills the space. This process is inherently social as visitors are photographed interacting with the piece, creating a participatory experience. The artwork connects to local culture, using the same banana leaves traditionally employed in making tamales, adding a layer of contextual significance. As the leaf transforms over time, it symbolizes change and ephemeral beauty, blending installation art with a tactile, sensory engagement rooted in local customs.

LACALLE * A Right-to-the-City Device 2010-2026

LACALLE * A Right-to-the-City Device 2010-2026

A performative-urban project emerging from an urgent artistic and political intuition: to return poetic action to the street as a form of civic presence, affective protest, and spatial listening. Rooted in the collaborative matrix of Maite Dono (voice), Hectruso (MiniRoc system) and El Intruso (live sound), LACALLE unfolds as a series of mobile performances across different Spanish cities—Ferrol, Madrid, Gijón, Sevilla, Almería—where the act of walking, sounding, and speaking becomes a situated reappropriation of public space. The MiniRoc, a wearable sound apparatus carried like a backpack, is more than a tool—it's an expressive prosthesis that turns the performer into a walking amplifier, a poetic antenna. Each episode—filmed and archived by Tomoto—transforms overlooked urban environments into sites of encounter and disruption: from whispering to a market wall to amplifying voice in a salt mine or a decaying square, these gestures are minimal yet deeply charged, forming a poetics of the infrastructural.

Twins on a Slope * Architecture as Gravitational Ethics * NORWAY

Twins on a Slope * Architecture as Gravitational Ethics * NORWAY

Architecture, like skiing, requires balance, foresight and the ability to read the slope

Chromatological Displacement and the Nomadism of the Object: An Analysis of Socioplastic Rupture * T

Chromatological Displacement and the Nomadism of the Object: An Analysis of Socioplastic Rupture * T

A portable sculpture and positional fixator * Part of the UNSTABLE INSTALLATION SERIES (2014–2024), it has traveled across multiple locations, including Madrid, Mexico, Norway, Croatia, and Lagos. The briefcase transforms spaces into ephemeral artworks, blending urban mobility with conceptual art. In continuous use, it transcends conventional exhibition formats.

TAXIDERMY III RIGO GALLERY CROATIA 2017

TAXIDERMY III RIGO GALLERY CROATIA 2017

Taxidermy as Installation involves the cutting and rearrangement of objects to create a fragmented but cohesive visual language. By dissecting materials like fabric, leather, or even furniture, each piece transforms into an abstract composition, exploring themes of absence, presence, and reconstruction.

The Duna-Dunaj Double Symposium

The Duna-Dunaj Double Symposium

Socioplastic Rituals and the Vernacular Readymade

What Is The Word * The Architecture of Affection and the Monochromatic Satellite

What Is The Word * The Architecture of Affection and the Monochromatic Satellite

Beyond the gallery fetish, the Light Social Sculpture Series redefines the art object as a "situational fixer." A nomadic intersection of Beckettian inquiry and chromatic intervention, these works transform the urban trajectory into a living archive of memory, affection, and radical presence.

SKOGFINSK MUSEUM

SKOGFINSK MUSEUM

The Norsk Skogfinsk Museum in Svullrya, Norway, integrates architecture with the forest landscape, reflecting the heritage of the local Forest-Finnish community. The design, called "Opening in the Forest," emphasizes sustainability with passive building strategies, natural materials, and renewable energy. The spatial layout includes public exhibition areas, a library, and a café, seamlessly connecting interior and exterior spaces, creating a respectful blend of culture, architecture, and nature.

PURPLE LEGS * MONOCHROME SELF SCULPTURE SERIES - LONDON PROVENCE - COLLECTION PAULA LUND

PURPLE LEGS * MONOCHROME SELF SCULPTURE SERIES - LONDON PROVENCE - COLLECTION PAULA LUND

Purple Legs as Urban Taxidermy and Instant Sculpture

Portable Memory and Ritual Affection

Portable Memory and Ritual Affection

The blanket, featured persistently across the Unstable Installation Series (2020–2024), operates not as an object but as a device of affect, circulation and performative presence. Stripped of its domestic singularity, it reappears across geographies—draped on chairs, hanging from walls, wrapped around bodies in winter landscapes or layered over furniture in modest interiors—accumulating narrative tension through repetition. This continuous activation resists aesthetic fixity, privileging gesture over monument, use over preservation. The blanket becomes a surface of interaction where time, bodies and context inscribe meaning, generating a fluid archive rooted in relational encounters and situated rituals.

FAST HEARTBEAT * NORWEGIAN FJORD * IN ICE COLD WATER

FAST HEARTBEAT * NORWEGIAN FJORD * IN ICE COLD WATER

The nocturnal dimension intensifies the work’s ontological stakes. Darkness erases orientation, transforming the fjord into an abstract void where perception falters. This withdrawal of visual certainty foregrounds proprioception and fear as primary materials.

Threads of Meaning * The Emotional, Political, and Healing Power of Contemporary Textile Art

Threads of Meaning * The Emotional, Political, and Healing Power of Contemporary Textile Art

The international panel at the Guimarães Biennial 2024, curated by Lala de Dios, explored the evolving role of contemporary textile art in addressing personal, political, and healing themes. Artists showcased how textiles transcend their traditional functions, becoming powerful tools for emotional expression, activism, and storytelling. Projects like Re-(t)exHile emphasized sustainability, while works by Barbara Long and Meghan Price highlighted intimate narratives.

HIDDEN FORCES

HIDDEN FORCES

The “Hidden Forces” project is a conceptual land art series set in the dunes of Cádiz. It transforms graffiti-covered concrete into minimalist art using solid black rectangles, drawing on Suprematism’s geometric aesthetics. The intervention contrasts the organic dune forms and the stark black shape, symbolizing the tension between human impact and nature. As the winds and sands shift, these markings will inevitably fade, emphasizing the impermanence and invisibility of human presence. This ephemeral act becomes a dialogue between concealment and revelation in the landscape’s context.

Colador Shelf in Camarote

Colador Shelf in Camarote

Geometric Synthesis * Spatial Reconfiguration

THERMODINAMIC ESSAYS ^* FALL 2018____STONE FIRE WATER_NEGRADAS

THERMODINAMIC ESSAYS ^* FALL 2018________STONE FIRE WATER_____NEGRADAS

Fire, Stone, and Ocean as Durational Praxis

The KIWI * Camarote Experience * Post Industrial Domesticity and Relational Epistemologies

The KIWI * Camarote Experience * Post Industrial Domesticity and Relational Epistemologies

Camarote (2003–2008) is a transformation of a Madrid workshop into a living-thinking art lab that fuses architecture, theory, and domesticity.

informe "CASOENAC Colima, México

informe "CASOENAC Colima, México

Proyecto que se enmarca dentro de una colaboración académica y de investigación relacionada con la psicología ambiental y el urbanismo. Específicamente, proviene de un proyecto conjunto entre la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) y la UNESCO, en el que participaron José Antonio Corraliza, psicólogo ambiental, y Anto Lloveras, arquitecto. El trabajo se centra en la evaluación y mejora del espacio público en Colima, México, con un enfoque en el bienestar de las personas mayores y la accesibilidad. El proyecto implicó trabajo de campo, reuniones con instituciones locales y recomendaciones de intervención en urbanismo y diseño inclusivo. La participación de la UAM resalta la conexión entre la investigación académica y las soluciones prácticas aplicadas a proyectos de desarrollo urbano.

Cultures, Representations, and the Cultural Study of Science

Cultures, Representations, and the Cultural Study of Science

Science and Culture Studies was a research network based in the Madrid Region focused on the intersection of cultures, representations, spaces, and practices. It provides a shared platform for reflection, research, and education, positioning science as a core element of cultural interest. The network supports the study of public knowledge spaces—political, artistic, economic—and promotes scientific knowledge dissemination within cultural contexts. CREP fosters collaborative research and training initiatives across diverse groups. Activities include seminars, exhibitions, courses, and symposia, such as the 2011 Strategic Seminar featuring Daniel Martín Bayón and Kira O’Reilly, hosted by LaPieza.

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Socioplastics — Project Index

CORE V

    Core V * Legibility Infrastructure marks the moment when Socioplastics becomes an accessible epistemic machine. Its ten operators turn the corpus into something readable, citable, indexed, archived and retrievable. DOI, slug, metadata, sequence and archive become architectural elements: they give the field body, memory and public gravity. → 

      CORE V — LEGIBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE — DOIs
    
  ★ LegibleArchive

  ★ MasterIndex

  ★ VerticalSpine

  ★ SerialDissemination

  ★ HybridLegibility

  ★ MetadataSkin

  ★ DualAddress

  ★ DistributedInscription

  ★ OperationalWriting

  ★ CyborgText

CORE IV

    Core III * Field Conditions defines the latent mechanics through which Socioplastics becomes structurally operative. These ten texts describe the conditions that allow a field to stabilise, accumulate density, organise force, and acquire persistence before recognition. EpistemicLatency, AutonomousFormation, StructuralCoherence and ThresholdClosure are not descriptive terms but operational conditions. Core III shows that a field forms before it is named, and gains force long before it is institutionally legible. → 

      CORE III — FIELD CONDITIONS — DOIs
    
  ★ ThresholdClosure

  ★ AgonisticSpace

  ★ PortHypothesis

  ★ GravitationalCorpus

  ★ MeshEngine

  ★ MapDimensioning

  ★ StructuralCoherence

  ★ AutonomousFormation

  ★ ActivationNode

  ★ EpistemicLatency

CORE III

    Core III * Operative Fields defines the ten disciplinary engines through which Socioplastics becomes transdisciplinary structure. These texts do not gather references; they specify the fields that make the corpus operable across language, art, systems, space, media and form. Each field functions as a structural operator inside a larger epistemic machine. → 

      CORE III — OPERATIVE FIELDS — DOIs
    
  ★ SyntheticInfrastructure

  ★ Dynamics

  ★ Morphogenesis

  ★ MediaTheory

  ★ Urbanism

  ★ Architecture

  ★ SystemsTheory

  ★ Epistemology

  ★ ConceptualArt

  ★ Linguistics

CORE II

    Core II * Structural Physics defines the internal mechanics of Socioplastics: number, scale, recurrence, anchoring, torsion, gravity and stratification. These ten texts do not add themes to the corpus; they describe how the corpus holds together as a field. NumericalTopology, ScalarArchitecture, LexicalGravity and StratigraphicField become instruments for reading density, position, force and duration inside an expanding epistemic architecture. → 
   
      CORE II — STRUCTURAL PHYSICS — DOIs
    
  ★ StratigraphicField

  ★ TransEpistemology

  ★ LexicalGravity

  ★ TorsionalDynamics

  ★ HelicoidalAnatomy

  ★ ConceptualAnchors

  ★ RecurrenceMass

  ★ ScalarArchitecture

  ★ DecalogueProtocol

  ★ NumericalTopology

CORE I

    Core I * Operational Decalogue defines the first hardened grammar of Socioplastics: ten protocols through which the corpus begins to act as field, system and infrastructure. FlowChanneling, SemanticHardening, StratumAuthoring, TopolexicalSovereignty and SystemicLock do not name isolated concepts; they establish operations for routing, fixing, layering, citing and sealing knowledge. Core I is the foundational spine where theory becomes protocol. → 

      CORE I — OPERATIONAL DECALOGUE — DOIs
    
  ★ SystemicLock

  ★ PostdigitalTaxidermy

  ★ TopolexicalSovereignty

  ★ CitationalCommitment

  ★ RecursiveAutophagia

  ★ ProteolyticTransmutation

  ★ StratumAuthoring

  ★ SemanticHardening

  ★ CamelTagInfrastructure

  ★ FlowChanneling

V I E W S

LAPIEZA is an experimental art project founded by Anto Lloveras and Esther Lorenzo

LAPIEZA is an experimental art project founded by Anto Lloveras and Esther Lorenzo

The Rhizomatic Vanguard of Relational Aesthetics * Decolonial Sequences and Temporal Ecologies in LAPIEZA's Experimental Praxis

Chromatic Machines in a Prefab Factory

Chromatic Machines in a Prefab Factory

Lilac and orange modules, once playful contrasts in prefab factories, return as tools for ecological transition—hosting air systems, rest pods, or EV hubs. Beyond aesthetics, they frame a socioplastic ethic: color as mediator between body, machine, and atmosphere. In a post-brand landscape, these forms persist—adaptive, affective, and quietly radical.

URBANAS - Critical Urban Praxis

URBANAS - Critical Urban Praxis

URBANAS is an international urban research practice led by Paula Lloveras and Anto Lloveras, working between architecture, art, and critical spatial investigation. Their projects activate cities as analytical and experimental frameworks where design, narrative, and fieldwork intersect to examine infrastructures, bodies, and territorial transformations

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURE CONGRESS ___________________ POSTORY :::::::: Gentrification, Turistization

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURE CONGRESS ___________________ POSTORY :::::::: Gentrification, Turistization

Socioplastics, as articulated by Antonio Lloveras Caminos, serves as an evolving concept that aligns artistic practice with cultural ecology and transformation. In a world grappling with urgent socio-political, economic, and cultural challenges, socioplastics emerges as a framework for fostering creative engagement in the face of these crises. It embodies the intersection of relational art and the dynamics of cultural environments, proposing artistic interventions as tools to reshape collective consciousness and reclaim public spaces

LAB

    The socioplastic system operates as a distributed intellectual architecture across eleven specialized interfaces. This multichannel constellation processes architecture, urbanism, and epistemology through a coordinated network of theoretical engines, artistic ecologies, and media metabolism. Each channel functions as a sovereign node within a navigable conceptual terrain.
  
      CONSTELLATION
    
      01 · SOCIOPLASTICS · theoretical and infrastructural core where the main conceptual and methodological framework is formalized * 02 · ARTNATIONS · editorial superchannel connecting heterogeneous materials, geographies, and large-scale cultural syntheses * 03 · LAPIEZA · art and curatorial channel dedicated to artworks, series, exhibitions, and symbolic constructions * 04 · FRESHMUSEUM · curatorial and mesographic interface for exhibitions, artists, archives, institutions, and cultural constellations * 05 · TOMOTOTOMOTO · audiovisual and time-based channel focused on moving image, installation, sequencing, and mediated environments * 06 · HOLAVERDE · environmental and atmospheric channel centred on ecological perception, wellbeing, microclimate, and embodied urban experience * 07 · CIUDADLISTA · urban observational interface structured around serial comparison, municipalities, infrastructures, and territorial patterns * 08 · OTRACAPA · political and agonistic channel focused on ideology, discourse, conflict, and institutional struggle * 09 · TÓMBOLO · workshop and meeting-ground devoted to exchange, pedagogy, situated reflection, and provisional assembly * 10 · YOUTUBEBREAKFAST · media digestion channel transforming dispersed audiovisual intake into reflection, criticism, and cultural analysis

NTNU CITY CAMPUS 2050 * INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION BY URBANAS

NTNU CITY CAMPUS 2050 * INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION BY URBANAS

Proposal by Urbanas for the international design competition imagines a fjord-connected, compact, and sustainable campus. A visionary blueprint blending architecture, ecology, and pedagogy.

I International Congress of Ecological Humanities Universidad Autónoma de Madrid — May 22–24, 2023

I International Congress of Ecological Humanities Universidad Autónoma de Madrid — May 22–24, 2023

The Trans-Lighthouse Manifesto * Ecological Humanities and the "Fifth City"

SPANISH BAR _ BAR ESPAÑOL ***** CONTEXT AS READYMADE _ UNSTABLE INSTALLATION SERIES

SPANISH BAR _________ BAR ESPAÑOL ***** CONTEXT AS READYMADE _________ UNSTABLE INSTALLATION SERIES

The traditional Spanish bar, once a vibrant hub of community life, is fading into memory. These spaces, where neighbors gathered for a morning coffee or an evening caña, are giving way to generic cafes and themed eateries that lack the charm and authenticity of the old taverns. What was once the beating heart of local culture—a place for debate, laughter, and camaraderie—is now being replaced by polished, impersonal establishments. This shift reflects a broader transformation of urban landscapes, driven by gentrification and changing social habits. With each bar closure, an era ends.

BLUE BAGS ::::::::::: UNSTABLE SOCIAL SCULPTURE - TRANSLATORIAL 2014-2019 SITUATIONAL FIXER

BLUE BAGS ::::::::::: UNSTABLE SOCIAL SCULPTURE - TRANSLATORIAL 2014-2019 SITUATIONAL FIXER

The Blue Bags embody the concept of the Unstable Social Sculpture, where the most basic elements — a simple plastic bag — become the most complex. These bags operate in duality: as art and as functional objects, their role shifting depending on context. They function as Translatorial pieces, transforming environments through minimal yet intentional placement. Acting as Situational Fixers, they adapt to and highlight the uniqueness of each setting, questioning the boundaries of art, utility, and visibility, thus becoming symbols of impermanence and fluidity in conceptual art.

Minor Letter e * From Industrial Ruin to Socioplastic Memory * LAPIEZA 001e LAPIEZA ART SERIES 001

Minor Letter e * From Industrial Ruin to Socioplastic Memory * LAPIEZA 001e LAPIEZA ART SERIES 001

A compact visual reflection on how a typographic sign—specifically the letter “e”—can embody both fracture and memory. Through domestic spaces, studio walls, scorched ruins, and gestures, the video tracks the symbolic collapse and persistence of cultural remnants. The letter is more than a glyph; it becomes a witness, carried, broken, and recontextualized across time and space. The visuals move from warmth to desolation without explanation, embracing discontinuity as a form of narrative. This approach foregrounds the poetic in the fragment, where meaning isn’t stated but sensed. By refusing clarity, the work invites us to dwell in the gaps between object, body, and ruin, rendering the typographic symbol as a relic of both language and loss.

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    LATEST SLUGS — WRITING IN PROGRESS
  

1520 ★ Place As Active Stratum
1519 ★ Program As Instruction Structure
1518 ★ City As Machine For Producing Difference
1517 ★ Body As Archive Of Work Adaptation
1516 ★ Museum As Apparatus Of Capture
1515 ★ Book As Spatial Temporal Construct
1514 ★ Editorial As Field Condition
1513 ★ Film As Chrono Topological Assemblage
1512 ★ Country As Geopolitical Friction
1511 ★ Word As Material Density In Flux

SNAKE

SNAKE

Redefining Small-Lot Living at Calle Gravina in MADRID

From Physical Lots to Hyperlinked Clouds

From Physical Lots to Hyperlinked Clouds

Socioplastic Frames and Relational Semionautics (2011–2015)

WALL RITUALS * THE LIGHT IN CÁDIZ

WALL RITUALS * THE LIGHT IN CÁDIZ

Ephemeral Rituals and the Supernatural Wall * A Dialectic of Consumption and Sacred Space * The Light in Cádiz as FoodArt Synthesis

Urban Punch Love

Urban Punch Love

Agonistic Urbanism and the Anthropomorphic Interface * The Radical Affectivity of Urban Punch Love * Relational Ethics in the Post-Municipal Public Sphere

VENUS

The Phenomenology of the Generic Skin

A renovation involved the complete removal of all partitions * CJCM MADRID

A renovation involved the complete removal of all partitions * CJCM MADRID

The workstations were separated by sheet metal shelving units that served both sides. The design featured wooden floors and exposed electrical systems, resulting in an affordable yet elegant transformation.

NETWORK

LAPIEZA ART SERIES
URBANAS
YOUTUBE BREAKFAST
TWINS

360 º TV SET

360 º TV SET

Television set for Disney Channel, designed by TABLE and published in the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM) magazine. The 15 x 15 meter set was conceived as a playful and versatile space for 360-degree filming. The design emphasizes creating a flexible environment to accommodate various television activities within the same set.

LIGHT CONCRETE SCULPTURE

LIGHT CONCRETE SCULPTURE

BLITZ BETON WORKSHOP ______ ROTTERDAM MUSEUM PARK

YELLOW BAG - UNSTABLE INSTALLATION SERIES - SITUATIONAL FIXER 2014-2024

YELLOW BAG - UNSTABLE INSTALLATION SERIES - SITUATIONAL FIXER 2014-2024

The Yellow Bag is an active object in Anto Lloveras’s work, functioning as both carrier and witness within performances, installations and walks across Europe, Africa and Latin America its symbolic presence gathers meaning through its travels, from the streets of Madrid to the beaches of Mexico, where it collects, connects and transforms materials and memories into ephemeral art it acts as a situational fixer, adapting to place and gesture while retaining its identity as a living artwork

A mound of rubble sits behind the glass (Lloveras, 2025) Occupying the gallery * LAPIEZA

A mound of rubble sits behind the glass (Lloveras, 2025) Occupying the gallery * LAPIEZA

UNSTABLE LOVE SERIES *PHOTO FILM NARRATIVE INSTALLATION CONCEPT

UNSTABLE LOVE SERIES *PHOTO FILM NARRATIVE INSTALLATION CONCEPT

Unstable Love and the Physics of Affection * Photography’s Duration Versus Video’s Collapse * ULS 1000

LEMON KISS - UNSTABLE INSTALLATION

LEMON KISS - UNSTABLE INSTALLATION

SOLO SHOW AT PULA CROATIA / NEVER SOLO / 100 ARTIST AT DISPLAY 2014

Cuerpos Filmados: 10 Years of Active Socioplastics. A decade-long meta-film archive-

Cuerpos Filmados: 10 Years of Active Socioplastics. A decade-long meta-film archive-

Dive into the rhizomatic archive of Cuerpos Filmados. This ten-year longitudinal study (2008–2018) captures the intersection of architecture, epistemology, and art. A transdisciplinary laboratory of filmed agency, documenting the collective survival of the urban subject across Madrid, Mexico DF, and beyond.

CADÁVER EXQUISITO___2020 ACCIÓN MUSEOGRÁFICA ESPACIO CRUCE

CADÁVER EXQUISITO___2020 ACCIÓN MUSEOGRÁFICA ESPACIO CRUCE

The performance "Cadaver Exquisito" took place at Cruce, Doctor Fourquet 5, on October 31, 2020. It was a collective action where each participant played a role: one threw, another dissected, another narrated, another carried with care, and another prepared a ritual. The form of the "corpse" was influenced by various elements—mass quality, spatial tangency, conversational dynamics, body temperatures, and interest in dissolution. The "Exquisite Corpse" is a method of collective creation, originally from literature, where each participant adds to the work without knowing the previous contributions, resulting in an unpredictable and emergent final composition.

Broth

Broth

Broth Ritual (2020) is a journey through the primordial fluid from which we emerge, where floating particles and incandescent light evoke the energy of creation and the origins of matter.

NATURE BOY

NATURE BOY

SUPERNATURAL - SERIES 2023 - TWIN FILM INSTALLATION

Qualitätskontrolle III: A Synesthetic Installation FIT 2021 CÁDIZ

Qualitätskontrolle III: A Synesthetic Installation FIT 2021 CÁDIZ

Qualitätskontrolle III transformed the former tobacco warehouses of Cádiz into a synaesthetic installation where film, choreography, sound and architecture merged into a single organism. Rather than staging a theatre piece, the work unfolded as a process of composition in situ: a haute cuisine dish “served warm,” without script or fixed narrative. Each participant—dancers, musicians, technicians, even the audience—functioned as ingredients of a collective recipe. The scenography was built from sacks of coarse salt, blankets, scaffolding, banners and cables, combined with the colossal emptiness of the nave itself. Two large suspended screens projected a film that mirrored the live action, binding reality and representation in a continuous feedback.

The Experience of the City: Public Space, Nature and the Right to Urban Meaning

The Experience of the City: Public Space, Nature and the Right to Urban Meaning

This course examines the configuration and crisis of urban public space from multiple perspectives —architecture, psychology, ecology— emphasising nature as a structural and symbolic component of urban life.

PAN 009 LAPIEZA ART SERIES 2010

PAN 009 LAPIEZA ART SERIES 2010

Crushed Memories and Toxic Affections *The Relational Ecology of SERIE PAN * Decolonial Sequences and the Sociology of Superjunk

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