Rooted in the rural matrix of Sierra Norte yet unfolding through planetary drift, Cosmotidiano operates as a mutable habitat, a living architecture where the intimacy of shared domesticity collides with the spatial grammar of socioplastics to produce a mode of existence in flux; developed in 2012 at the Centro Comarcal de Humanidades as part of LAPIEZA Art Series #49, this project dissolves the boundaries between institution and impulse, configuring a collective metabolic system through ephemeral materials—straw bales, citrus peels, plastic mesh, and networked video—that behave less as sculptural matter than as responsive agents in a soft choreography of relation; the installation rejects the static logic of the exhibition in favor of ritualized activation, with each element—Regina Fiz’s performance, Tomoto’s video drifts, Eduardo Cajal’s tactile interventions—contributing to a shifting constellation where art becomes a lived, situated ecology; the straw units, termed “horizontal tectonics,” become vectors for shared rest and friction, while Paula Lloveras’ mandarin nets infuse the space with olfactory traces that fold memory into architecture; the work unfolds as a processual heterotopia, aligning with Foucault’s spatial theory and echoing Bourriaud’s micro-utopias, but grounded in Jane Bennett’s vibrant materialism, where agency is distributed among ten artists and multiple mediums, resisting authorial fixity; as the project mutates into a digital metamovie, its physical specificity dissolves into media drift, reappearing as a nomadic essay in contexts far beyond La Cabrera, suggesting a method for decoding collective life through soft gestures and everyday residues; rather than monumental design, Cosmotidiano proposes a gentle architecture that breathes through clip, fruit, and straw, prompting future reactivations where the body, again and again, becomes a tool for building joy.
Lloveras, A. (2012) ‘Cosmotidiano: Mutable Habitats’, Socioplastics Blog. https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/cosmotidiano-mutable-habitats.html
