From the interstitial zones of Madrid's Mirador Building to the post-autonomous installations of the Lagos Biennial, the praxis of Anto Lloveras unfolds as a cartography of spatial entanglement where urban metabolism, systemic architecture, and relational art collide in deliberate disorder; his trajectory, inscribed within projects like LAPIEZA and Socioplastics, proposes a mesh-based methodology that reconfigures both disciplinary borders and epistemic sovereignty, crafting platforms-as-ecologies that oscillate between spatial research, curatorial interventions, and pedagogical dissent, thus rendering the architect not a constructor but a mediator of post-disciplinary tensions, his work in RE-(T)eXhile during the 2024 Lagos Biennial confronting the violent excess of global textile waste through site-specific artistic remediation in partnership with informal economies and decaying infrastructures, embodying what he terms textile metabolism—a conceptual weave where refugia, material cycles, and civic visibility intersect; this becomes evident in the Biennial's collaborative mappings and installations responding to West Africa’s dumping corridors, reframing debris as mnemonic artefacts of colonial-industrial legacy; beyond such interventions, Lloveras's post-history research with UAM and his residency iterations through Nomad AIR mark his commitment to a mobile yet grounded epistemology, where authority is dispersed across meshworks of knowledge rather than centralised institutions; early projects like 11 Plazas or the Manzana Verde plan in Málaga show how sustainable urbanism and contested public space formed his foundational vocabulary, later complexified through engagements with Relational Aesthetics in Mexico, Croatia, and Spain as archived in Replicante and Kulturistra, which underscore his concern with affective infrastructure; today, his conceptualisation of Future Utopia as both pedagogical platform and speculative tool exemplifies a shift from object-based production to ecosystemic thinking, where pedagogy, art, and architecture no longer serve domains but activate each other in transversal flows of co-creation and disruption. Lagos Biennial 2024, RE-(T)eXhile, https://lagos-biennial.org/lb-2024/2024-participants/
