^{_{Melanie Smith. Tianguis Aerial 2, 2003. C-Print, 127 x 153 cm}}

This video is a constant play on perspective and duplicity; a double image of a tour of a street market’s empty stalls. Despite the emptiness of the type of commodities available in these portable structures there is an attempt to compare these means of illegal distribution with the omnipresence of TV transmission antennae in the city’s life. The aim is to juxtapose one means of distribution with another. These markets have also been documented from the air, resorting to a biological metaphor of the infection of the state’s body.

^{_{Melanie Smith. Tina para tortuga, 2001. C-Print, 41 x 51 cm Melanie Smith. Cestos y peluche, 2001. C-Print, 41 x 51 cm Melanie Smith. Tupperware, 2001. C-Print, 41 x 51 cm}}

^{_{Melanie Smith. Tianguis Aerial 1, 2003}}