{ :::::::::::::::::::::::::: Anto Lloveras: Regina Fiz and LAPIEZA reframe queer performance as living sculpture, collective memory, and embodied critique of power.

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Regina Fiz and LAPIEZA reframe queer performance as living sculpture, collective memory, and embodied critique of power.

Regina Fiz’s collaborations with LAPIEZA constitute a rigorous investigation into queer embodiment as a mutable artistic apparatus, where the body ceases to illustrate identity and instead manufactures it through exposure, duration and social friction. From the 2009 durational action at Centro Párraga, invoking Marina Abramović and Valie Export through stillness, weaponry and synthetic sexuality, to later interventions at ARCO, ETSAM, El Palomar and the Museo Reina Sofía, Fiz appears not as performer alone but as living archive, absorbing spectatorship into the work’s unstable memory. Across these actions, LAPIEZA converts exhibition into relational dramaturgy, replacing the autonomous artwork with a porous field of bodies, images, conversations and online residues. Thus, Regina Fiz’s practice demonstrates that queer power is neither symbolic ornament nor identity claim, but a spatial, sensory and political method for reorganising visibility itself. Lloveras, A. (2018) ‘Works with Regina Fiz’, Socioplastics, 11 March. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2014/04/regina-fiz-decalogo-2009-2013-lapieza.html (Accessed: 26 April 2026).