MUDAS:::::::::::::::::::::::::SERIES MUDAS_______001:::::017_______OXIDACIÓN PLÁSTICO AROMÁTICA...................UNSTABLE SOCIAL INSTALLATION__________________MEXICO DF 2013_____________________________LAPIEZA

MUDAS

Bodies, Leaves and Decay

The MUDAS series, presented in Mexico City in 2013, articulates a poetics of transience through banana leaves arranged as anthropomorphic forms. Their folds, wrinkles, and oxidations suggest vulnerable bodies suspended between life and disappearance. Each piece becomes both a vegetal relic and a human echo, oscillating between sculpture and ephemeral installation. The work proposes a radical ecology of perception, where organic material and social body mirror each other, blurring the limits of art, ritual and decay. Installed in LaPieza and the Hotel Virreyes showroom, the series engages the public in a relational encounter: the leaves, placed on white walls, face the visitors, forcing a silent dialogue on mortality, transformation and the unstable nature of matter. By naming them social sculptures, the artist emphasises the community dimension of the act—each spectator becomes co-participant, completing the fragile presence of these vegetal bodies with their own gaze. MUDAS is thus not only about leaves but about the impermanence of form itself: a reminder that every body, human or vegetal, carries within it the inevitability of change.

SHOWROOM VIRREYES - MEXICO DF 2013

INSTALACIÓN

ESCULTURA SOCIOPLÁSTICA

ART BY ANTO LLOVERAS

MEXICO DF 2013

Mudas * Slow Decay as Temporal Drawing

 

Mudas is a conceptual installation-performance where a single, fresh banana leaf is pinned to the wall and left to wither over days. First activated in Mexico City (2013) and reiterated in unstable exhibition contexts across Latin America and Europe, Mudas represents an archetypal socioplastic gesture: minimal, situated, affective. The work bypasses symbolic overproduction in favor of metabolic unfolding—the leaf yellows, contracts, releases aroma, and eventually becomes a skin of memory on the gallery wall. Each iteration is documented only through visitors' proximity, scent, and breath. Rooted in the Socioplastics framework, Mudas reorients installation toward vegetal rhythm and affective temporality. It functions as a situational fixer, where local context (culinary, botanical, architectural) becomes inseparable from the meaning of the gesture. The banana leaf—traditionally used to wrap tamales—becomes a carrier of both culture and decay, inviting spectators to inhabit the slowness of material transformation. The installation often includes portraits of visitors beside the leaf, framing presence as co-authorship. In the canon of United Nations of Art, Mudas aligns with works like El Dorado, Blue Bags, and Broth—radically simple relational devices that generate ephemeral publics and rewrite aesthetic attention. Rather than resisting entropy, it welcomes it, making rot an ally in the politics of presence. (Lloveras, A. 2010–2025) antolloveras.blogspot.com - mudas, socioplastics, banana leaf installation, vegetal temporality, ephemeral sculpture, smell-based art, Mexico City, united nations of art, unstable installation, situational fixer, slow decay drawing

CHACHARAS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpC6TzIclZg

 

NURIA VALVERDE

 


FILMADOS
http://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2013/12/filmados.html