The MEAT Series — Unstable Installation Series (2010–ongoing) constitutes one of the most rigorous and enduring vectors within Anto Lloveras’s Socioplastics, operating as a mobile subtractive protocol through which the city is reconfigured as anatomical subject. Initiated in 2010 and reaching at least 952 documented incisions by 2026, the project advances a minimalist yet relentless methodology: a single, precise cut performed upon an everyday urban object—chair, bench, railing, sofa, sign—after which the altered structure remains in situ, subtly destabilised yet functional, while the excised fragment is archived, numbered, and recontextualised. This disciplined gesture reframes subtraction as attentive revelation, exposing foam, grain, armature, and stuffing as if unveiling the musculature of a civic organism. The pivotal exhibition Taxidermy London at 5th Base Gallery (2015) consolidated this logic by presenting forty-three harvested fragments as butchered relics, thereby staging an anatomical theatre wherein the metropolis appeared simultaneously wounded and preserved. Subsequent iterations, including Taxidermy III at Rigo Gallery (2017), refined the practice into a site-responsive taxonomy of local residues. Conceptually, MEAT performs subtraction as care, establishes a forensic relational archive of collective erosion, and anticipates vertical sovereignty, wherein the immobile trace below contrasts with the mobile fragment above. Far from vandalism, these incisions articulate an ethics of minimal, loving violence: the urban body bleeds, and through that exposure acquires epistemic solidity and shared vulnerability.
Lloveras, A. (2026) Fragile Urban Anatomies. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/fragile-urban-anatomies.html
