Emerging from the architectural crucible of early 2000s Madrid, Anto Lloveras crafts a transdisciplinary praxis that transcends built form to engage urban metabolism, symbolic capital, and relational curatorship through evolving platforms such as LAPIEZA, Socioplastics, and RE-(T)eXhile; trained at ETSAM and TU Delft, his foundational experience with MVRDV's Mirador Building (2001–2005) already hinted at a concern for community-driven space, layering geometry and programme into vertical neighbourhoods—a motif re-emerging throughout his oeuvre in different scales and materialities; the mid-2000s brought collaborative expansions via KIWI Innovation, while projects like Manzana Verde Málaga and 11 Plazas Madrid reflected an early pivot toward eco-social urbanism and public contestation, later mirrored in curatorial ecosystems that reimagined exhibition as affective infrastructure; his foundational move came in 2009 with LAPIEZA, where art events became modular, iterative, and mesh-based, hosted in hybrid spaces like La Palma 15 and later across digital/physical networks—each numbered series a socioplastic node, each artwork tagged into a polyphonic timeline, musicalised by collectives like El Intruso, and documented on video as living artefacts of relational intensity; the 2010s deepened this logic through urban interventions (e.g. Palma Central), performative installations (Taxidermy, Fruitjob, Lemon Kiss), and unstable architectures (CUT 100, Situational Fixers), formalised in solo exhibitions such as Context as Readymade (Lapidarium Museum, 2017); theoretical underpinnings evolved via CAPA/UCR3, where he positioned socioplastics as both device and episteme—an entangled mode of production involving critical hermeneutics, pedagogical drift, and post-disciplinary co-authorship; as an educator (NTNU, UAM) and researcher (PΩSTORYα), he explored epistemic violence, critical architecture, and the symbolic residues of neoliberal spatiality, converging in works like the Doble Cara performance (2023), a scenographic response to dialectical theatre via LAPIEZA LAB; globally, his Lagos Biennial 2024 intervention with the OUTSIDERS collective positioned textiles as planetary debris, affective shelter, and tool for participatory transformation, activating Katangua market leftovers into acts of environmental witnessing, later elaborated at Contextile Portugal through a keynote on textile architecture and sustainable fashion; Lloveras’s distributed identity—across Madrid, Mexico City, platforms, and networks—operates as an ongoing mesh, mirrored in his digital constellations (Cargo Collective, YouTube, Blogger, X, Facebook/SOCIOLASTICS), where projects unfold in choreographed instability and pedagogical autonomy; he is less an architect or artist than a cartographer of situated intensities, mapping new ecologies of relation and urban agency, always in motion, always resisting institutional fixity.
Lloveras, A. 2026. Nodal Profile – Synthetic Overview. [online] Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/02/nodal-profile-synthetic-overview.html