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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Supernatural Series and the Ethics of Listening


The Supernatural Series occupies a pivotal position within Anto Lloveras’s socioplastics, marking a decisive shift from urban critique toward an ethics of ecological listening. Active since at least 2015, the series reframes artistic intervention as a practice of attunement rather than inscription. Where the Taxidermy series dissected the city as an animal-body subjected to extraction and display, Supernatural withdraws from the metropolitan metabolism to engage rural and natural contexts as living, autonomous systems. This is not a romantic return to nature, but a critical recalibration of scale, time, and agency. The series privileges impermanence, contextual ritual, and minimal presence, aligning with broader post-anthropocentric debates in contemporary art and environmental humanities. Landscapes are treated not as neutral backdrops but as epistemic fields—sites that speak through wind, sediment, seasonal rhythms, and decay. Lloveras’s gestures are deliberately light: subtraction, concealment, walking, collecting. In this sense, Supernatural functions as a counter-model to extractive cultural production, proposing instead a reparative, zero-waste praxis that understands fragility as a political condition rather than a deficiency.