SON[I]A #266. Melanie Smith
Deleted scenes
Breaking the pictorial frame
Overflow
Irreversible, illegible, unstable
Breaking the straight narrative and using different textures
I’m five artists in one studio
A bit more about texture
Women in the Arts in Mexico
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Melanie Smith that we were unable to include the first time around.
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Melanie Smith talks about her encounter with Mexico, her relationship with painting, and the risks of so-called political art, which can end up being as dogmatic as the behaviour it supposedly condemns. She also reflects on satire and absurdity as tools of subversion and on the need to break down artistic frameworks and surfaces in order to create new realities.
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