Radical Simplicity distils confinement into walks, lemon rituals and peripheral images where scarcity becomes artistic sovereignty.

Radical Simplicity (2020) crystallises Anto Lloveras’s post-confinement sensibility into a sparse yet expansive meditation on aesthetic reduction. Emerging after fifty days inside the studio, the work gathers first walks, peripheral landscapes, spring atmospheres and the recurring “lemon ritual” of the Spanish plateau into an image-based grammar of survival. Its force resides in refusing spectacle: the sequence treats ordinary matter, seasonal light and bodily re-entry into the exterior as instruments of postcorona cognition. As a case study within the COVID series, it situates Ávila and Castilla y León not as scenic backgrounds but as epistemic terrains where isolation, attention and rural edges generate new artistic protocols. The reference to “supernatural series periphery” intensifies this reading, proposing that the marginal, the modest and the apparently mute may disclose altered forms of perception after social suspension. Ultimately, Radical Simplicity asserts that scarcity is not deprivation but method: an ethics of looking through which the artist reconstructs sovereignty from fragments, walks and luminous residues. Lloveras, A. (2020) ‘RADICAL SIMPLICITY’, Socioplastics, 22 June. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2020/05/radical-simplicty.html (Accessed: 26 April 2026).