^{Melanie Smith (Poole, United Kingdom, 1965) is one of Mexico’s most renowned contemporary artists, working across a wide range of media, from painting and photography to installation. Fordlandia is a journey of (de)colonization through which the artist continues her aesthetic inquiry into the detours of modernity in uncertain territories of its imaginaries.}

^{In Fordlandia, Smith (de)explores the Amazon: the tensions between the industrial and the natural landscape, between the living and the machine. Conceived as an illustrated logbook of the dialogue between the artist and the curator, and accompanied by a philosophical essay on the forms of bare life and the “night of the jungle,” Fordlandia poses a historical-political question about the meaning of the world in contemporaneity.}

^{Authors : Melanie Smith, José Luis Barrios 
Language : Spanish & English
Editor: RM}