The contemporary practice of Anto Lloveras necessitates a departure from the traditional taxonomy of the "portfolio" in favour of a rigorous Socioplastic Ontology. This shift acknowledges that the artist-architect no longer functions as a mere producer of discrete artefacts, but as a mediator of relational infrastructures that bridge the gap between institutional authority and the visceral reality of the urban palimpsest. By positioning WORK-SATELLITE as the ontological anchor of this trajectory, Lloveras establishes a foundational displacement of meaning, where the architectural act is redefined as a translatorial process—a continuous negotiation between the monumental scale of the city and the intimate scale of human ritual.
This "hyperplastic" approach suggests that the city is not a static environment but a malleable surface, susceptible to the transient gestures and ethical incisions of the practitioner. This transition from the art-object to a cultural infrastructure is articulated through three synchronized interfaces: the Book, the Program, and the Curatela. The Book acts as the device of academic authority, fixing the "Architecture of the Ephemeral" within a theoretical framework that allows for scholarly citation and the legitimization of the Socioplastics method. Simultaneously, the Program (Rhizomatic Pedagogy) translates this research into a transmissible laboratory, ensuring that the methodology of urban dissection and affective infrastructure can be scaled and practiced by others. Finally, the Curatela presents the work not as a retrospective, but as an active ecosystem—a platform where the spectacular nature of FIREWORKS meets the micrological agency of PROTISTAS. Together, these devices crystallize a unique field of situated practice that redefines the role of the creator in the twenty-first century as an architect of social and semiotic connectivity.
Lloveras, A. (2026) Socioplastics: Architecture of the Ephemeral. Available at:
