^{_{Behind the scenes from «Aztec Stadium. Malleable Deed», Melanie Smith, 2010, Video Full HD, 10’29’’}}

Aztec Stadium. 2010 Malleable Deed is an activation of the relationship between chaos and modernity. The piece consists of mosaics created by 3000 students from Mexican public schools, who compose various images from the history of art, such as Malevich’s Red square, as well as from Mexican nationalist imaginaries and even from the popular imaginaries of mass culture, such as the mythical wrestler Santo, wearer of the silver mask. The articulation of these imaginaries through chaos as social affection results in a delirious dismantling of the symbolic network with which the fictions of national and cultural identity attempt to be constructed in modernity.

^{_{Exhibition view of «Farsa y Artificio» by Melanie Smith at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, 2018}}

^{_{Behind the scenes from «Aztec Stadium. Malleable Deed», Melanie Smith, 2010, Video Full HD, 10’29’’}}

^{_{Stills from «Aztec Stadium. Malleable Deed», Melanie Smith, 2010, Video Full HD, 10’29’’}}

^{_{Exhibition view of «Farsa y artificio» by Melanie Smith at MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico, 2020}}

^{_{Stills from «Aztec Stadium. Malleable Deed», Melanie Smith, 2010, Video Full HD, 10’29’’}}

^{_{Behind the scenes from «Aztec Stadium. Malleable Deed», Melanie Smith, 2010, Video Full HD, 10’29’’}}