Re-(t)exHile is an ongoing socioplastic project, initiated at the 4th Lagos Art and Architecture Biennial, where discarded textiles become living documents of exile, resilience, and postcolonial repair. Installed in Tafawa Balewa Square, a former colonial racetrack turned civic site, the work gathers secondhand cloth from European and African markets to compose ephemeral architectures: woven tents, suspended threads, fragmented archives. The result is a hybrid installation where migration, economy, and affection entangle within a fragile spatial system. Curated by Folakunle Oshun and Kathryn Weir, and developed in collaboration with Martinka Bobrikova, Óscar De Carmen, Adebola Badmus, María Alejandra Gatti, and Lloveras, the work explores how socioplastics can activate textile waste as historical witness. Threads are not simply sewn—they are situational fixers, stitched into place with stories, photos, and field research. Cloth becomes critical interface, recording the emotional and political entanglements of global circulation. Beyond Lagos, Re-(t)exHile extends the conceptual lineage of El Dorado, Blue Bags, and Mudas—projects where fragility and movement reconfigure how we understand form. As part of United Nations of Art, it proposes a borderless infrastructure of textile memory, where materials migrate like people: worn, displaced, adapted. Every scrap tells a story. Every fold is a map of care. (Lloveras, A. 2010–2025) - antolloveras.blogspot.com - re-(t)exHile, textile installation, socioplastics, exile, global waste, living document, lagos biennial, symbolic repair, postcolonial textile, unstable architecture, united nations of art, affective archive, situational fixer
