Melanie Smith

– Casa Wabi 2017

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Conferencias interactivas. Proyección de los documentales “la patria” y “fordlandia” – Rio Grande
Mexican artist Melanie Smith held two meetings at the Casa Wabi film auditorium. This conference was given with young people from the community of Rio Grande, where two documentaries that the artist made: “La Patria” and “Fordlandia” were screened.
The main objective was that during the projections the artist managed to establish a dialogue on the various art topics covered in the films.

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Lives and works in México City

Melanie Smith was born in Poole, England, in 1965. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Reading. Since 1989 she has lived and worked in Mexico City, an experience that has enormously influenced her works ever since.
Her work has been characterized by a certain re-reading of the formal and aesthetic categories of the avant-garde problematized at specific sites and within the horizons of heterotopias. In earlier pieces, she illustrates the idiosyncracies of multitudes, chaos, and aberrant forms on the outskirts of contemporaneity. This is evident in such videos as Estadio Azteca – Proeza maleable, Xilitla (2010), Bulto (2011), and Elevator (2012). Her current work is linked to a critical vision of the relationships between precariousness, life, and the forms of violence that characterize contemporary industrial society.
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February-March 2017