LEMON KISS is a subtractive gesture disguised as an artwork, a kiss that removes rather than adds. Conceived as part of the Unstable Installation Series, and presented during the solo show NEVER SOLO (Pula, Croatia, 2014), the work takes the form of a pared-down intervention—one yellow lemon placed precisely on the white floor of a 16th-century stone building, undercut by a subtle absence: a slice already removed. What remains is a trace, a phantom of fruit, a luminous wedge of almost-nothing. The installation channels Mediterranean materiality and the language of conceptual minimalism: no text, no wall, no plinth. Visitors walk around it, instinctively giving space. The lemon emits scent before meaning. This sensorial ambiguity positions the object as both everyday and untouchable—ritual and residue. Across photos, conversations, and recollections, LEMON KISS persists less as a visual memory than as an affective impression: acidity, silence, sunlight. Within the broader field of Socioplastics, the piece exemplifies Lloveras’s use of ephemeral forms to negotiate permanence, and of color as relational syntax. Yellow here is not a symbol, but an emotional temperature. A kiss, as an act, transfers energy without possession. LEMON KISS performs this logic: it marks the space but never claims it. It opens the canon not with volume, but with lightness.
(Lloveras, A. 2010–2025) https://antolloveras.blogspot.com - lemon kiss, unstable installation, minimal art, socioplastics, color as syntax, ephemeral sculpture, Mediterranean minimalism, conceptual installation, site-specific art, sensory art, yellow object, relational gesture, United Nations of Art
