ARTNATIONS, conceived by Anto Lloveras between 2016 and 2018, functions as a conceptual extension of LAPIEZA, his long-running Relational Art Series active since 2009, and operates as a mobile, site-specific exhibition cycle grounded in the principles of socioplastics—a methodology that embraces precarity, hybridity, and collective authorship through social, urban, and material interventions; framed as an "extended series" within LAPIEZA, ARTNATIONS imagines art as a borderless nation, a symbolic space where collaborative voices replace geopolitical boundaries and artworks become ritual objects—bags, food, fabrics, gestures—that critique systems of consumption, identity, and exchange; this speculative "nation" unfolds through around 10 shows or actions, including approximately 100 numbered works (series 1001–1100) completed in 2018, often linked to unstable installations that inhabit public spaces, galleries, and informal markets with temporary, mobile sculptures designed to generate situational interaction and urban friction; each iteration activates a form of aesthetic migration, from Madrid and Marseille to Lagos and Mexico City, creating spaces of ephemeral citizenship and symbolic cohabitation, where the artwork is not fixed but performed, shared, and dispersed; by embedding itself in the porous zones of **daily life—color rituals, food offerings, clothing actions—**ARTNATIONS refuses monumental closure and instead proposes a distributed curatorial logic, one where the archive remains open, and the artwork lives through repetition, circulation, and collective memory, aligned with Lloveras’s vision of art as relational infrastructure and cultural repair. (Lloveras, A. 2010–2025)
