^{Melanie Smith. Farsa y artificio is the publication that accompanies the most extensive exhibition organized in Europe on the work of this hard-to-classify artist, who was born in the United Kingdom (Poole, 1965) but has developed her career in the Mexican art scene since the 1990s. The publication presents over 120 works included in the exhibition and reproduces the wide variety of media through which Smith expresses herself: from her early sculptures, assemblages, reliefs, and paintings to her works in video, photography, and installations.}

^{The selection of images in the book, like the exhibition itself, does not follow a chronological order but a thematic one, structured into different sections: Abstraction, Urban, Color, Archaeology, Body, Nature, and Scale. The book also includes an essay by the exhibition’s curator Tanya Barson, an interview with the artist by MUAC’s chief curator Cuauhtémoc Medina, and an essay by Robin Adèle Greeley, Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut.}

^{Authors : Tanya Barson, Robin Adele Greeley, Cuauhtémoc Medina
Language : Spanish & English
Editor: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Museo Amparo}