Exhibition view of «Clusterfuck» by Melanie Smith at PROYECTO PARALELO, Mexico City, 2024. Photo: Laura Orozco.
Clusterfuck as an exhibition appears as one enormous palimpsest in which we recognize the imaginary world, from the Romantic and Sublime landscapes to cosmic-driven Symbolism, scientific sketching and contemporary images of technology. These forms become dynamic through an installation that establishes multiple semantic, formal, historic, thematic, and chromatic relations that move across the works at different levels, functioning in a way that mirrors montage in film. The knitted works made in collaboration with Annuska Angulo are made with linen. Each piece is an intuitive, open, and tentative response to the drawings in which juxtapositions are recreated between the micro and the macro, maps and patterns, controlled explosions, and moments of chaos.
Melanie Smith. Sublime Meditations 26, 2023. Watercolor on paper, 76 x 57 cm Melanie Smith in collaboration with Annuska Angulo. Pi (Pond 5) #26, 2023. Linen weave, 107.5 x 78 x 4.5 cm
Melanie Smith. Sublime Meditations 23, 2023. Watercolour on paper, 76 x 57 cm Melanie Smith. Sublime Meditations 25, 2023. Watercolour on paper, 76 x 57 cm
Exhibition view of «Clusterfuck» by Melanie Smith at PROYECTO PARALELO, Mexico City, 2024. Photo: Laura Orozco.
Melanie Smith. Psychoactive Render 14, 2023. Pigment on wooden panel, 72 x 85 cm Melanie Smith. Sublime Meditations 24, 2023. Watercolor on paper, 76 x 57 cm
Exhibition view of «El tiempo se siente menos si nos quedamos quietos» by Melanie Smith at Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, México, 2025. Courtesy of Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ). Photo: Lazarillo.