MUDAS * From Leaf to Scent * Installations of Oxidation in Mexico ^ Ritual * SOCIOPLASTICS

Between 2013 and 2016, the MUDAS series unfolded across Mexico City, Oaxaca, and the Pacific coast as a dispersed experiment in ephemeral materiality and sensorial rupture. Rather than fixed artworks, these installations operated as oxidative gestures, each composed of a single fresh leaf—banana, tamal, maize—pinned to a wall and left to decay in situ. The process was slow, olfactory, and public: within 48 to 72 hours, green gave way to ochre, moisture seeped into the surface, and an intense, humid aroma filled the air. Viewers didn’t just look—they inhaled, waited, documented, posed. Some touched. Others watched it curl. 

Easy Rider * Infrastructures for Nomadic Urbanism

 

Set within the evolving infrastructures of Madrid—a city marked by the long aftermath of the 2008 housing collapse, ongoing mobility shifts, and deepening climate pressures—Easy Rider operates as a speculative housing prototype that fuses domestic life with kinetic freedom. Developed by the agencies URBANAS and LAPIEZA, the project revisits an honorable mention from the 2018 Experimental Housing Competition not as a nostalgic artifact, but as an operative lens to reimagine collective dwelling. Rooted in the concept of socioplastics, the proposal reflects a broader investigation into how architecture can act as a social fixer, engaging material forms, circulatory flows, and infrastructural systems. It responds to post-pandemic conditions that have amplified demands for spatial autonomy, shared resources, and resilient urban habitats—particularly within Southern European contexts where precarity and overexposure to climate extremes increasingly intersect.

Kingdom Series * Subtraction Art Interventions in European Landscapes

Revisiting the Kingdom Series: Subtraction Interventions in Landscape Art—minimalist conceptual art practices from Norway 2015 to Serbia 2016, exploring situated knowledge, material politics, and urban dramaturgy through bodily gestures like arm-reach clearings of leaves, ivy, and soil. Rooted in operative thinking and infrastructural vision, these ephemeral installations challenge anthropocentric hierarchies, drawing on Haraway and Bratton for distributed agency in ecological drifts amid climate precarity. From Madrid 2026, this serial practice reclaims tactile engagements in post-natural spaces, fostering mobile methodologies and design research for future curatorial methods.

Full essay * https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/kingdom-series-subtractions-as.html