Chronologies of Expansion * From EXIT to COPOS, LAPIEZA’s 185 series trace a durational cartography where exhibition becomes protocol, archive becomes method, and art becomes field research.

The enumerated sequence from EXIT (2009) to COPOS / The End of an Era (2025) reveals LAPIEZA not as a loose succession of exhibitions but as a rigorously unfolding serial epistemology in which each numbered series constitutes a discrete yet interdependent unit within a larger research architecture. What appears, at first glance, to be a chronological index of titles, dates, and node ranges is more accurately understood as the operational grammar of Socioplastics, where artistic production is inseparable from classification, accumulation, and relational mapping. The progression from early compact cycles such as BAZAR, MOSCA, and SOCIOPLASTICS to expansive later constellations such as ARTNATIONS, FLOCK, CONFETTI, BANCAL, and COPOS demonstrates an intensification in both scale and conceptual density: nodes multiply, temporal intervals thicken, and the exhibition format evolves into a system of field protocols capable of holding places, affects, collaborations, and discursive residues within the same infrastructure. Particularly significant is the recurrent attachment of numerical ranges to each series, since these convert the archive into a measurable and citable terrain, allowing titles to function simultaneously as poetic condensations and empirical coordinates. In this light, LAPIEZA’s chronology is not ancillary documentation but the very substance of the work: a cartography of continuity in which naming, counting, and sequencing become curatorial acts. The archive thus emerges as a sovereign machine of memory and projection, making visible how a long-duration practice transforms dispersed artistic episodes into a coherent transdisciplinary field. 

Lloveras, A. (2009–2026) LAPIEZA archive and series records. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/ and https://lapiezalapieza.blogspot.com/

Liminality refers to a state of being where one is neither in one place nor another __________ ART SERIES 153 ***** 154

 

The concept of liminality was developed in Arnold Van Gennep's book "Rites of Passage," and later expanded upon by Victor Turner. It refers to a state of openness and ambiguity characteristic of the intermediate phase in a tripartite space-time structure (consisting of a preliminal or prior phase, a liminal or intermediate phase, and a postliminal or subsequent phase). Liminality is directly related to the idea of communitas, as it represents an anti-structure and anti-hierarchy phenomenon within society. In such a state, a generic "spiritual" communion among social subjects surpasses the specifics of stratification. Consequently, it is the moment where trivial distinctions are suspended, allowing "passage" between different social conditions. It represents being on a threshold, between something that has passed and something yet to come. Conditions such as illness, adolescence, the state between sleep and wakefulness, or temporary madness are considered liminal states, as are journeys, whether undertaken for pleasure or necessity. Liminality can also apply to places, such as airports or prisons, and to personal or group events Liminal spaces have inspired an Internet aesthetic that portrays empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, desolate, and often surreal. These spaces, related to the concept of liminality, can be transitional areas like hallways or rest areas, as well as places with nostalgic appeal, such as playgrounds and empty houses. Generally, images of liminal spaces depict abnormally empty and dreamlike places. Research from the Journal of Environmental Psychology suggests that liminal spaces may seem creepy or strange because they fall into an uncanny valley of architecture and physical locations.

THE LIMINALITY ART SERIES 153___154

1801 

1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 

1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 

1817 1818 1819 

1820

STONE GARDEN _________________________________ LAPIEZA 1471

WALKS

ALTA

BLACK HOLE

KING DREAM EXTENDED SERIES

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