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

Farce and artifice is a performance, with an accompanying slide show of found images from 1970´s left wing theatre productions. An Anglo-Saxon woman and a Cuban dance teacher come together on the dance floor in an hour of laboured steps and clumsiness. The woman translates the awkwardness and estrangement of learning the steps as an outsider.

^{_{Exhibition view of “Sólo los personajes cambian” by Melanie Smith at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, México, 2004}}

^{_{Found footage, 1970s}}

^{_{Exhibition view of “Sólo los personajes cambian” by Melanie Smith at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, México, 2004}}

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