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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Art becomes infrastructure when body, matter, risk and language construct fields that transform perception, duration, and consequence.

Art here emerges not as an object of contemplation but as an operative condition: a field that cuts, leaks, waits, stains, endures and reorganises the world it inhabits. Across Smithson’s entropy, Burden’s bodily risk, Roth’s decay, Mendieta’s trace, Holzer’s sentence-pressure and Serra’s spatial weight, the work ceases to be a finished artefact and becomes a system of consequences. Its force lies in the refusal of decorative closure: scale becomes epistemic pressure, the body becomes proof, matter resists refinement, and language operates as architecture rather than explanation. A decisive case is Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, where art does not represent lightning but prepares the conditions through which lightning may occur; similarly, Socioplastics frames artistic practice as distributed infrastructure, binding essays, archives, identifiers, datasets and semantic anchors into a navigable ecology of recurrence. The conclusion is severe but generative: art matters when it behaves as field-making, not representation; when it exposes fragility without sentimentality, humour without triviality, abstraction without vagueness and process without ornamental residue. A world is not merely shown: it is constructed. Lloveras, A. (2026) ‘Art as Condition, Field, Risk, and Matter’, Medium. Available at: https://medium.com/@antolloveras

Thursday, June 22, 2023

FRESH DECAY //////// 2017__________________________1070 FICUS

IN EXHIBITION MADRID 2017
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1072 YELLOW GUM FRUIT """"""""""""""""
1073 MEAT 230 250 """"""""""""""""""""
1074 ECO URBANISMS GREEN EXILE """"""
1075 FAR EL INTRUSO BROWN YELLOW """""
1076 MELANCHOLIA - WHITE """""""""""""
1077 GREEN COLLATERALL SERIES + """"""
1078 STEAM + + + + + """""""""""""""""
1079 NEW MIMESIS """"""" SET""""""""""
1080 FICUS YEAR CÁDIZ MÁLAGA """""""""