^{_{Performance view of «Bulto» by Melanie Smith at the 54th International Venice Biennale,  Italy, 2011}}

Filmed in Lima, Peru as a project by the Museo de Arte de Lima-MALI, Bulto is an affective mass that fixates on different symbolic orders to disturb, interrupt and above all hinder the flow and symbolic network of a variety of historical, political, social and economic registers. It represents the repressive phenomenon that molds aspects of post-colonial identity, but also a critique of national pride in an idealized ancestral past made up of a-historical identities that overcome the valorization of contemporary reality.

^{_{Exhibition view of «Short Circuit» by Melanie Smith at Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany, 2012}}

^{_{Melanie Smith. Bulto 3, 2010. Oil on Canvas, 48 x 70 cm . Melanie Smith. Bulto 4, 2010. Oil and acrylic enamel on MDF, 35 x 40 cm . Melanie Smith. Bulto 5, 2010. Oil and acrylic on enamel, 60 x 70 cm
Melanie Smith. Bulto  9, 2011. Oil and acrylic enamel on MDF, 65 x 80 cm Melanie Smith. Bulto 7, 2012. Oil and acrylic enamel on MDF, 15 x 20 cm Melanie Smith. Nipple, 2010. Oil and acrylic enamel on MDF, 20 x 15 cm}}

^{_{Exhibition view of «Bulto» by Melanie Smith at Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, 2011}}