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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Yellow Bag Series * Architecture of Affection


Initiated in 2014 within the early phases of Unstable Installation and Lemon Kiss, the Yellow Bag Series by Anto Lloveras emerges as a chromatic sibling to the Blue Bags, yet recalibrated through luminosity rather than neutrality. Conceived as an ultra-anonymous reusable carrier, the yellow bag operates as situational fixer: a portable device that absorbs context, catalyses encounter and resists fetishisation. Its debut in performative documentation—such as the 2014 clip, situates it within a continuum of lived gestures rather than discrete artworks. Traversing Madrid, Croatia and Provence, the bag accumulates seeds, urban residues and fleeting inscriptions, thereby converting geography into living archive without monumental excess.

Chromatically, yellow functions as tactical affirmation: a bright satellite interrupting industrial greys and softening architectural severity, articulating what Lloveras later theorises as the architecture of affection. As a specific synthesis, its integration into Decadröm (2026) alongside quotidian props—hat, suitcase, chairs—demonstrates how minimal objects choreograph liminal intensity without drama, embodying post-relational ethics grounded in repetition and care. Cross-series appearances—from MEAT 107 NAILS to sonic references in 338_FALL—extend its mesh-like circulation, confirming that its agency lies not in display but in sustained modulation: carry, absorb, translate, repair. Ultimately, the Yellow Bag Series substantiates Socioplastics’ central axiom that colour, when enacted as durational protocol, becomes sovereign infrastructure—an enduring, joyful counterpoint to instability, where the banal bag is transfigured into a conduit of relational density and quiet resilience.

Lloveras, A. (2014–2026) http://antolloveras.blogspot.com