Between 2010 and 2025, the MEAT series—formally titled MEAT — Unstable Installation Series—developed as a sustained ritual of urban subtraction, where Spanish artist and architect Anto Lloveras enacted over 948 spatial interventions across cities in Europe and Africa, transforming everyday street objects into socioplastic residues. Far from literal flesh, the term “meat” signals the vulnerable body of the city, its overlooked organs: benches, fixtures, rails, and signs sliced with surgical precision, revealing internal structures and relational tensions. Each cut, documented and archived, becomes part of a dispersed network of situational fixers, often left in situ as ephemeral wounds that demand attention and reflection. Emerging from the LAPIEZA Relational Art Series and interwoven with Taxidermy and Broth, the MEAT project reframes the city as both subject and medium, where minimal gestures produce maximal shifts in perception. As a mobile sculptural practice, it rejects monumentalism in favour of repetition, absence, and precarity—cutting to expose not only physical layers but also the systemic logics of control, abandonment, and repair. Rooted in Lloveras’s concept of socioplastics, MEAT fuses performance, architecture, and urbanism into an evolving public archive, one where materiality is unstable, memory is embedded, and art becomes a critical protocol for reading and altering space. In doing so, it challenges normative exhibitions and proposes an alternative cartography of the city—built not through construction but through subtraction as care, an act that dissolves authorship and invites participation through encounter. (Lloveras, A. 2010 2026) https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2014/09/meat-series-2014-madrid-marsella-berlin.html
