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Melanie Smith Parres III 2005 Courtesy Galería OMR, Mexico and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich Enlarge image

Set in the small town of Parres, just outside of Mexico City, this trilogy of films explore the construction and break down of pictorial illusion by deliberately making visible the processes of film and painting. The town was selected for its anonymity, neither recognizably Mexican, nor central European. Each film explores the disappearance, or revealing, of the visible world through the transformative process of monochromatic painting.

Melanie Smith was born in Poole, England and lives and works in Mexico City. Smith has shown widely in the United States, Europe and Mexico yet this is the first solo presentation of her work in the UK.

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Melanie Smith Parres I 2004