A 15-Year Journey * LAPIEZA emerges as a paradigmatic instance of post-objectual practice in which art ceases to be a discrete artefact and becomes instead an infrastructural condition.


Founded in 2009 by Anto Lloveras in Madrid’s Malasaña district, the project’s earliest phase, “The Room as Laboratory,” established a methodological grammar rooted in weekly mutation, seriality, and relational contingency. The Palma 15 studio functioned less as a production site than as a proto-institution, staging over 500 works as iterative propositions rather than resolved forms. Series such as EXIT or BAZAR articulated a proto-socioplastic logic, wherein symbolic exchange, affective economies, and precarious materiality displaced the authority of the singular artwork. This foundational moment already positioned LAPIEZA against the museum’s stabilising epistemology, favouring instead what might be termed an “unstable archive”: a living system of accreted gestures, provisional meanings, and collective inscriptions. In this sense, LAPIEZA resonates with Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics while exceeding it through a durational, infrastructural ambition that renders sociability not merely a theme but an operational substrate.