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Anto Lloveras

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Socioplastics is a transdisciplinary terrain where architecture, epistemology and art converge

ABOUT

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.

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.

VENUS

The Phenomenology of the Generic Skin

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.

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

TWIN HOUSES * WITH FREDRIK LUND * PAULA LLOVERAS

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

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.

COSMOTIDIANO

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

Bordados Sisters * The Sonic Legacy of El Intruso

SOUND IS KEY

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.

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.

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.

THE LIGHT IN PROVENCE

On form, color and affection - situational performance -

TAXIDERMY I _________________LONDON 2015

THE CITY IS AN ANIMAL

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

RED LINE

PORTABLE SCULPTURE SERIES

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.

A mound of rubble sits behind the glass

Occupying the gallery * LAPIEZA

OPEN AIR GALLERY / NORWAY

COLLABORATION WITH FREDRIK LUND / PAULA LLOVERAS

A renovation involved the complete removal of all partitions

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.

RIGO GALLERY

SOLO SHOW / SET OF TEN

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.

TÓMBOLO

SOCIAL ART HUB

TRIENAL V

URBANAS FRONTLINE SERIES

The Rhizomatic Vanguard * Relational Synthesis of LAPIEZA

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

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.

COLADOR

INDUSTRUAL DESIGN SERIES

LIGHT CONCRETE SCULPTURE

BLITZ BETON WORKSHOP ______ ROTTERDAM MUSEUM PARK

TRIENAL IV

URBANAS TRANSURBANISM

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.

PAN

2010

URBAN PUNCH LOVE

A pop-humanoid scaled to seat height, Urban Punch Love converts street furniture into an extrovert actor. Its bulbous rubber body, sprung legs and comic physiognomy invite touch before thought, collapsing the distance between spectator and object. The work proposes interaction as the primary civic programme: a bench that looks back, a mascot that supports weight, an urban companion whose ergonomics are legible at a glance. In doing so, it reframes the plaza as a stage for proxemics and play rather than merely circulation.

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

EL DORADO is a socioplastic sculpture by Anto Lloveras (Madrid, 2013), formed by a single emergency blanket passed between artists. Ephemeral, shared, and affective, it resists monumentality, transforming gold into care and presence into form—part of HIPERVÍNCULOS, a network of relational states.

FULL MOON SERIES

2025

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.

MEAT — Unstable Installation Series

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.

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.

YOUTBE BREAKFAST

These videos create a plural discourse between different artistic and epistemological practices, showcasing an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach that broadens the connections between art and knowledge.

WALL RITUALS

THE LIGHT IN CÁDIZ

THERMODINAMIC ESSAYS

FALL 2018________STONE FIRE WATER_____NEGRADAS

Super Natural Series SLOVAKIAN RURALISM MMXIX EXTENDED DUNA

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

SNAKE / HOUSING

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.

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.

PURPLE LEGS

MONOCHROME SELF SCULPTURE SERIES - / LONDON PROVENCE - COLLECTION PAULA LUND

TEACHING SERIES NTNU

2019 MÁLAGA

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.

YouTube Breakfast / Dinamicas del sujeto conectado / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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.

e

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.

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.

LEMON KISS - UNSTABLE INSTALLATION

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

BACK IN PROVENCE

CORRENS 2019

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.

FAST HEARTBEAT / RITUAL SERIES

NORWEGIAN FJORD / IN ICE COLD WATER

SUBAMB

EXPERIENCIA SUBLIME Y AMBIENTE ///////////////////////////////////// Análisis psicológico de las emociones trascendentes en relación con la naturaleza

CAMAROTE

A ROOM FOR WORK

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.

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

UNSTABLE LOVE SERIES

FILM INSTALLATION CONCEPT

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.

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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.

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.

Small Orange Tag * Sculpture

Translational Tactics for a Weightless Aesthetic

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.

LAPIEZA — Relational Art Agency

LAPIEZA is an experimental art project founded by Anto Lloveras and Esther Lorenzo, developed over fifteen years as a numbered sequence of exhibitions and research actions. Each series activates temporary environments where art, science, and collective practice intersect, generating conditions rather than finished forms. Working across everyday and institutional spaces, LAPIEZA operates as a decolonial, process-based framework that tests how contexts become material, how collaboration redistributes authorship, and how exhibition formats remain porous, unstable, and alive. Through its evolving structure, LAPIEZA produces situated installations, performances, and micro-ecologies that challenge conventional modes of display and cultural production.

LAPIEZA / GALERÍA EXPERIMENTAL

ARTÍCULO EL VIAJERO . ELPAÍS

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.

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.

La anatomía de un muro rústico

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 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

CAPA * Council for Anticipatory Politics

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.

TAXIDERMY II _____________ NEGRADAS 2016

TAXIDERMY SERIES ///// THE CITY IS AN ANIMAL __________

GREEN BRIEFCASE

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.

Landart Fjord Museum: Architecture of Minimal Impact

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.

EL PALMERAL – SUSTAINABLE URBAN PROJECT IN MÁLAGA

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.

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.

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.

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.

4X4________RUSSIAN SALAD

GREEN HYBRID URBAN DESIGN SERIES 2017

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

The Architecture of the Invisible * Active Socioplastics and the Digital Satellite in the LLLL Light Social Sculpture Series

RIGO GALLERY - SOLO SHOW CROATIA - THE CITY IS AN ANIMAL

Adriatic Sea, Croatia. After a year of work, I present the latest Taxidermy. I have walked this city repeatedly—treating it as canvas, frame, and supermarket. Always with my knife. I bring 250 cuts. Rigo Gallery is a space I deeply respect. For over twenty years, its curators have welcomed hundreds of international artists from across disciplines. Noam Chomsky once gave a lecture here. The cuts of Lucio Fontana have hung on these walls—he, too, carried a knife. He was one of my childhood heroes. Now, the main dish I serve is raw: a fresh display of meat. Meat as art. “Meat” is the tag I assign to each piece I extract from the city’s animals—street furniture, fixtures, residual architecture. The full-scale Taxidermy installation will occupy the main wall. Around it, I bring a cloud of collateral works: related fragments, echoed narratives, and a set of monochrome objects still in use—situational fixers. Nothing is wasted. No leftovers.

VELÁZQUEZ 100 SITUATION ___ PLANCTON

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.

SECTOR

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.

NATURE BOY

SUPERNATURAL - SERIES 2023 - TWIN FILM INSTALLATION

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

A performative-urban project i 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.

HUSØY ARENA //////////////////////////////// SOCIAL CLUB /// NORWAY / 2012

COLLABORATION WITH FREDRIK LUND / PAULA LLOVERAS

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.

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.

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Background Character Syndrome

FRAMING THE LANDSCAPE

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

VENUS

Designing the Urban Grid of ARCO’05

PAN DE NEVE

TWIN HOUSES * WITH FREDRIK LUND * PAULA LLOVERAS

Unstable Light * Entangling the Social Fabric

COSMOTIDIANO

Bordados Sisters * The Sonic Legacy of El Intruso

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

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

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

THE LIGHT IN PROVENCE

TAXIDERMY I _________________LONDON 2015

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

RED LINE

House and Dome: Minimal Architecture as Conversational Sculpture

A mound of rubble sits behind the glass

OPEN AIR GALLERY / NORWAY

A renovation involved the complete removal of all partitions

RIGO GALLERY

TAXIDERMY III RIGO GALLERY CROATIA 2017

TÓMBOLO

TRIENAL V

The Rhizomatic Vanguard * Relational Synthesis of LAPIEZA

Cultures, Representations, and the Cultural Study of Science

COLADOR

LIGHT CONCRETE SCULPTURE

TRIENAL IV

360 º TV SET

PAN

URBAN PUNCH LOVE

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

FULL MOON SERIES

MUDAS - Mexico City

MEAT — Unstable Installation Series

HIDDEN FORCES

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

YOUTBE BREAKFAST

WALL RITUALS

THERMODINAMIC ESSAYS

Super Natural Series SLOVAKIAN RURALISM MMXIX EXTENDED DUNA

SKOGFINSK MUSEUM

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

Portable Memory and Ritual Affection

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

SNAKE / HOUSING

THEWOODWAY Norway with Fredrik Lund @ NTNU

EASY RIDER

PURPLE LEGS

TEACHING SERIES NTNU

Qualitätskontrolle III: A Synesthetic Installation FIT 2021 CÁDIZ

YouTube Breakfast / Dinamicas del sujeto conectado / Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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informe "CASOENAC Colima, México

LEMON KISS - UNSTABLE INSTALLATION

BACK IN PROVENCE

CADÁVER EXQUISITO___2020 ACCIÓN MUSEOGRÁFICA ESPACIO CRUCE

FAST HEARTBEAT / RITUAL SERIES

SUBAMB

CAMAROTE

ART MEETS FASHION * SETS AND CLIPS 2011 MADRID LAPIEZA

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

UNSTABLE LOVE SERIES

Broth

LEGAL

H I T S

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

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

Small Orange Tag * Sculpture

KINGDOM SERIES

LAPIEZA — Relational Art Agency

LAPIEZA / GALERÍA EXPERIMENTAL

NTNU CITY CAMPUS 2050 * INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION BY URBANAS

Stage Series

La anatomía de un muro rústico

Chromatic Machines in a Prefab Factory

URBANAS - Critical Urban Praxis

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