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Xilitla: Melanie Smith

18 June 2013 at 19.45–21.45

Melanie Smith, Professor Dawn Ades and Tanya Barson will be in conversation about Smith’s film installation Xilitla (on display on Level 2), Edward James’s extraordinary Surrealist garden at Xilitla in Mexico, and the relationship between modernism, the ruin and contemporary art. The event will also mark the launch of a new book on Melanie Smith’s Xilitla.

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18 June 2013 at 19.45–21.45

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Film still from Melanie Smith's Xilitla 2010
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Mexican encounters

Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith’s video Xilitla, which focuses on Edward James’s extraordinary gothic Mexican garden Las Pozas de Xilitla, was purchased by Tate last year. Here, the artist reveals her ideas behind the work, now on display at Tate Modern

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