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.
Tate Modern
talks_lectures
Xilitla: Melanie Smith
Melanie Smith and Rafael OrtegaXilitla 2010
© Melanie Smith and Rafael Ortega
Tate Modern
Date & Time
18 June 2013 at 19.45–21.45
