At the heart of Anto Lloveras’s 2017 solo show at Rigo Gallery, Context as Readymade, lies a critical inversion: installation is no longer a medium to display content but rather the content itself, understood as unstable, memory-driven assemblage; through gestures like Taxidermy 2015 – 462, where urban fragments are cut and pinned like biological specimens, Lloveras repositions the city as a living-animal archive, dissected not for preservation but for symbolic decomposition—a theme resonant with his broader series of Situational Fixers, ephemeral installations in Prague and France, where bags, leftovers, and site-specific debris are reactivated as semiotic vectors, each work becoming an affective diagram of the momentary encounter; unlike monumental installation practice, Lloveras's strategy is to dissolve the borders between curation, architecture, and performance, turning each show into a hermeneutic site, a hybrid of artistic presence and conceptual openness, where lightness, geometry and relational colour schemes are vehicles of mnemonic transference; the Rigo exhibition, presented with sharp humour as “a main dish of cuts,” is structured around a wall-based matrix of Taxidermy slices and a collateral “cloud” of relational objects, deliberately resisting completion, echoing his philosophical interest in hermeneutics and his ongoing research at CAPA/UCR3, which underpins his concept of Socioplastics—a discursive device for narrativising the material-symbolic entanglements of place, body and authorship; these unstable installations are not merely deconstructed aesthetics, but perform a spatial ethics, where instability becomes a method of resistance to exhibition norms, institutional control, and static meaning; by embedding his work within a hybrid onsite–online format, Lloveras also subverts the digital by re-enchanting its presence through spatial proxies, aligning his method with post-curatorial architectures rather than art object production, positioning the artist as editor, assembler, catalyst, rather than auteur, and the space as an always unfolding ecosystem of meanings-in-motion. Muzej Lapidarium 2017, http://www.muzej-lapidarium.hr/anto-lloveras-context-as-readymade-unstable-installation-series/
