Sculptural Minimalism

Double Sided conceived by Anto Lloveras and Mateo Feijoo in 2022, advances a singular proposition: that performance may be recalibrated as a two-sided living sculpture in which duality functions not as antagonism but as structural syntax. Operating through a rigorous two-channel simultaneity, each performer inhabits a parallel plane—on stage or in split-screen—where gestures are reiterated with fractional deviations, generating intensity through accumulation rather than crescendo. The aesthetic economy—standardised white shirts, quotidian objects such as the itinerant Yellow Bag, and a pared movement lexicon—cultivates a no-drama intensity that privileges sculptural presence over theatrical narrative. In Doble Cara 012 at Réplika Teatro (Madrid, 2023), the dual configuration materialised as a disciplined negotiation of proximity and distance: two bodies, visibly autonomous yet rhythmically entangled, produced a field of ordered asymmetry in which spectatorship became an act of comparative perception. Earlier iterations such as Doble Cara 007 — Escultura Escénica foregrounded the body as architectural matter, consolidating the project’s alignment with Socioplastics’ unstable social sculpture. Here, repetition operates as epistemic prosthesis; minimal variation becomes a method for stabilising relational volatility without collapsing difference. Ultimately, Double Sided reframes conceptual dance as a politics of sovereign coexistence, wherein parallelism replaces fusion and presence itself constitutes the event. Lloveras, A. (2022–2026) DOUBLE SIDED * ANTO LLOVERAS + MATEO FEIJOO  RÉPLIKA TEATRO MADRID https://antolloveras.blogspot.com