Within the long-form conceptual project MEAT — Unstable Installation Series, Taxidermy emerges as a critical phase that explores the symbolic preservation of urban matter through precise, subtractive interventions—a single, ritualistic cut made to a public object, transforming it from functional infrastructure into a sculptural relic of the everyday; with key works in London, Marseille, and Croatia, this line of the series reflects Anto Lloveras’s socioplastic methodology, where the city is approached as a living, vulnerable body, and each cut becomes a gesture of both rupture and care, exposing the “flesh” beneath chairs, benches, signs, or sofas while questioning what should be remembered, removed, or reactivated; unlike traditional taxidermy, these interventions do not preserve the whole, but rather extract minimal fragments—corners, panels, cross-sections—which are then archived and exhibited as material residues of social life, documented meticulously through photos, field notes, and video; these relics often appear in unstable installations, precariously positioned or reinserted into public space, resisting the closure of the white cube; Taxidermy aligns with recurring MEAT themes: palindrome (symmetry), ellipsis (omission), and compression (reduction), transforming disappearance into form; first formalized with intervention #100 in London, the Taxidermy phase extended into Croatia with a solo show at Gallery Rigo (2017), where these subtracted objects were shown in dialogue with their urban origins; together, these works constitute a forensic poetics of the city, in which fragility, trace, and absence function as both method and message, reconfiguring public space as a mutable archive of collective memory and silent resistance. (Lloveras, A. 2010–2025) Explore Taxidermy and the MEAT Series at antolloveras.blogspot.com
