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

The Elevator is a video that breaks with order and logic. Whilst setting up its own zone of theatricality, the movement of the camera creates glitches, stutters and stammers that bear a potentiality in disconnected narratives and intervals. These intervals between floors, actions and inanimate objects are somehow vacoules of non-communication that elude definition; breaking with the world and yet forming another.

^{_{Stills from «Elevator«, Melanie Smith, 2012, Single channel video, color sound, 7′49»}}

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