ARTNATIONS, developed by Anto Lloveras between 2016 and 2018 as a satellite phase of the LAPIEZA Relational Art Series, constitutes a critical experiment in transnational curating and symbolic sovereignty, reimagining art as a borderless nation of collaborative, ephemeral gestures embedded in public life; drawing from the logic of socioplastics, this phase privileged unstable installations, portable rituals, and context-sensitive performances involving everyday objects—lemons, blue bags, briefcases, fish, jeans—that traversed markets, cities, and galleries to activate relational meaning and communal reflection across locations such as Madrid, Marseille, Kikinda, Poreč, and Zagreb; central pieces like Lemon Kiss, Fish Dish Ritual, The City as Readymade, or Blue Sculpture redefined sculpture as processual code, emphasizing translation, instability, and ritual repetition over monumental form; through approximately 100 works in the 1001–1100 range, ARTNATIONS generated a distributed network of symbolic action, operating within existing spaces (galleries, markets, sidewalks) but refusing the logic of display, favoring circulation, context, and care as core curatorial devices; deeply intertwined with this ethos is the long-term MEAT Series (2010–2025), a 15-year sculptural investigation into urban matter, infrastructural exposure, and minimal cuts, where Lloveras intervenes in public furniture—chairs, benches, signs—removing “flesh” to reveal latent tensions within the built environment; each intervention is simultaneously precise and precarious, accumulating into a dispersed archive of wounds, aligning with socioplastics’ focus on fragility, repetition, and public consciousness; rather than presenting autonomous works, both ARTNATIONS and MEAT operate as living protocols—each action a node in a planetary system of ritualized art practice, grounded in care, situated knowledge, and the persistent questioning of authorship, value, and institutional power. (Lloveras, A. 2010–2025) - Access archives at antolloveras.blogspot.com
Friday, December 5, 2025
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
TAXIDERMY installation CUTS in the MEAT Series
Within the long-form conceptual project MEAT — Unstable Installation Series, Taxidermy emerges as a critical phase that explores the symbolic preservation of urban matter through precise, subtractive interventions—a single, ritualistic cut made to a public object, transforming it from functional infrastructure into a sculptural relic of the everyday; with key works in London, Marseille, and Croatia, this line of the series reflects Anto Lloveras’s socioplastic methodology, where the city is approached as a living, vulnerable body, and each cut becomes a gesture of both rupture and care, exposing the “flesh” beneath chairs, benches, signs, or sofas while questioning what should be remembered, removed, or reactivated; unlike traditional taxidermy, these interventions do not preserve the whole, but rather extract minimal fragments—corners, panels, cross-sections—which are then archived and exhibited as material residues of social life, documented meticulously through photos, field notes, and video; these relics often appear in unstable installations, precariously positioned or reinserted into public space, resisting the closure of the white cube; Taxidermy aligns with recurring MEAT themes: palindrome (symmetry), ellipsis (omission), and compression (reduction), transforming disappearance into form; first formalized with intervention #100 in London, the Taxidermy phase extended into Croatia with a solo show at Gallery Rigo (2017), where these subtracted objects were shown in dialogue with their urban origins; together, these works constitute a forensic poetics of the city, in which fragility, trace, and absence function as both method and message, reconfiguring public space as a mutable archive of collective memory and silent resistance. (Lloveras, A. 2010–2025) Explore Taxidermy and the MEAT Series at antolloveras.blogspot.com
Saturday, July 6, 2024
MEAT 825 LAGOS PANTS NIGERIA 2022________________LAPIEZA 1516
MEAT SERIES
