MELANIE SMITH

A conversation with curator Helena Chávez Mac Gregor on the opening of Solo una cosa era extraña, seguir pensando como antes at IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern in Valencia, Spain

The Argentinian transfixed in the dark. Green river plants that swallow up the fish tank.
“Yes” said the Mexican, the wound never really heals without scarring, but I don’t know how else to explain it.
The screen flashes the words “ something infinitely lost and distant kept pulling us together”  – the genetic odyssey of our damaged bodies. 

Still from «Locos y Lapas», Melanie Smith, 2024, Video Full HD, 30’51”
Exhibition view of «Remain Detached» by Melanie Smith at Sicardi Ayers Bacino, Houston, USA, 2024. Photo: Tom Dubrock

Exhibition view of «El tiempo se siente menos si nos quedamos quietos» by Melanie Smith at Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, México, 2025. Courtesy of Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ). Photo: Lazarillo.

Book produced by MUAC for the exhibition Farce and Artifice, 2019