Nomadic gestures

In the realm of walking art and nomadic ritual, Anto Lloveras shares deep affinities with artists like Hamish Fulton and Arahmaiani, yet retools their practices through a more architectural and infra-relational lens. Where Fulton defines his work through the walk itself—“no walk, no work”—Lloveras redefines walking as a form of portable inscription, where each step leaves behind not just memory but material residue, encoded into carriers like the Yellow Bag. Unlike Fulton’s solitary declarations, Lloveras moves through inhabited topographies—Madrid, Galicia, Lagos, Trondheim—not as a pilgrim but as a situational repairer, enacting small, cumulative gestures of presence. In parallel, Arahmaiani’s Flag Project, which invites communities to create nomadic symbols of hope and resistance, finds resonance in Lloveras’s re-(t)exHile series, where discarded fabrics and local textiles are stitched into relational constellations, mapping territories marked by displacement, exile, and environmental violence. Both artists engage ritual as method, walking not to arrive but to transform the path itself, embedding meaning into materials that move, change, and adapt. What emerges is not just art-in-motion, but a politics of slowness, where the mobile object becomes a witness, a translator, a soft disruptor. In this constellation of walking, sewing, gifting, and listening, Lloveras, Fulton, and Arahmaiani work in different rhythms—but towards a shared ethos of ephemeral contact and territorial listening. They are not just references; they are my brothers and sisters on the path. Lloveras, A. (2010–2026) Socioplastics: The Architecture of the Summa (6K). https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/