Friday, January 23, 2026

LAPIEZA emerges as a paradigmatic instance of post-objectual practice in which art abandons the autonomy of the discrete artefact to operate as an infrastructural condition of social, ecological, and symbolic exchange.

Founded in 2009 by Anto Lloveras, the project unfolds across fifteen years, 180 series, and more than 2,000 pieces, configuring a living archive rather than a catalogue of works. THE FOUNDATIONAL LAB: MALASAÑA (2009–2012)The project began at Palma 15, transforming a modest room into a weekly mutating laboratory. This stage established the grammar of socioplastics: art as relational process and situated ethics. Early series—EXIT, BAZAR, KIWI—privileged precarious materiality and ritual repetition over the commodity, producing a foundational matrix of 500 pieces. NOMADIC DISPOSITIF: THE EXPANSIVE PHASE (2013–2019)The laboratory deterritorialised into a mobile ecology across Mexico, Oslo, Athens, Marseille, and Bogotá. Series like PHANTOM and SWEET CORN BRUTALISM encoded local atmospheres into "geometries of affect." This phase redefined hospitality as a method, building a network through intimacy rather than institutional visibility. RECREO: ECOLOGICAL SEDIMENTATION (2020–2021)A retreat to rural Ávila shifted the rhythm toward vegetal time. Socioplastics mutated into ecological attentiveness. In series like BASAL and TRONCO, the archive ceased to be a repository and became respiration—a cartography of attention where agency is distributed across human and non-human actors. RURALISM AND BIENNIALS (2022–2026)Negotiating global circuits (Lagos, Guimarães) and territorial pedagogy (Galicia), the project now functions as archipelago where landscape is epistemology.

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Milestone in Vienna      1,000 Pieces & Relational Instability
From Ruin to Memory      Urban Evolution and Industrial Decay
Physics of Affection     Emotional Physics in Installation
Beyond Institutions      The Relational Space of 2008–2012
Rhizomatic Synthesis     Cultural Ecologies Framework
Decolonial Ecologies     Temporal Visions and Sequences
Spatial Rituals          RECREO and Slow Ecology
Stitching Resilience     Textile Narratives of Waste
Ritual Ruralism          Eco-critical Ethos and Poetics