Initiated in 2014 within the broader framework of Socioplastics, the Blue Bags series by Anto Lloveras posits that sculpture, if it is to remain politically and epistemically relevant, must renounce monumentality in favour of unstable relational persistence. Ordinary blue plastic shopping bags—anonymous, disposable, aesthetically neutral—are adopted as situational fixers, stripped of symbolic prestige and thus capable of operating as frictionless carriers of context. Through quotidian use—shopping, travel, urban drift—the bags accumulate traces: sand from Cádiz dunes, produce from Mediterranean markets, residues of transit between Madrid, Berlin, Lagos, or London. These minor sediments become vectors of translatorial mobility, whereby each displacement metabolises geography into memory without theatrical declaration. Drawing obliquely on Joseph Beuys’s notion of social sculpture yet rendering it portable and metabolically adaptive, Lloveras advances the concept of Unstable Social Sculpture: a durational choreography in which body, city, and infrastructure interpenetrate through repetition rather than spectacle. The gesture echoes Duchamp’s readymade, yet shifts towards a decolonial, post-relational ethics in which the object indexes passage rather than authorship. Exhibited intermittently yet never concluded, the series functions as a living archive—its documentation forming part of a sovereign epistemic mesh resistant to semantic erosion. Blue Bags thus exemplifies metabolic sovereignty: the banal carrier becomes infrastructural intelligence through sustained translational use, converting global instability into civic modulation and proving that resilience may reside in the most unassuming of materials. Lloveras, A. (2014–2026) ‘BLUE BAGS – UNSTABLE SOCIAL SCULPTURE – TRANSLATORIAL’. Available at: https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2014/08/blue-bags-2014-madrid-berlin-cadiz.html * https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/02/blue-bags-translatorial-2026.html