<sup>Melanie Smith (England, 1965)
She lives and works between Mexico City and London.

Her work in diverse media has reflected on the extended field of painting within the history of art and its entanglement with moving image. In earlier pieces she illustrates the idiosyncrasies of multitudes, chaos and aberrant forms within urbanism. Later works extend towards the effects of extractivism at specific ecosystems and environments in Latin America. The spiral and the palimpsest are recurring forms of thought mode, working as double helixes that entwine relationships between industrialization, nature, body, archaeology and scale. She is interested in fragmented montaje, and creates filmic and performative experiences that often allude to behind the scene productions and political farse. Mostly, her work shatters any rational significance, as a way of thinking through contingent forms and being.</sup>

^{She has exhibited at numerous institutions incluid PS1 and MOMA, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museo Tamayo, and MUCA Campus UNAM, Mexico City; Museo Amparo, Puebla; The Modern, Fort Worth; SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe. In 2011 she represented Mexico at the 54th Venice Biennale. A panoramic exhibition of her work was shown at Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, in 2014, travelling to the CAC, Vilnius and the Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam. In 2018 she was included in the Liverpool Biennial. Melanie Smith: Farce and Artifice a panoramic survey, was presented at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona in 2018, and traveled to MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, Mexico City, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, 2019 and MARCO Monterrey in 2020.}

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