Original numbered photograph, signed by the author. Hardcover with gold stamping over suede.
Only 2 copies now remaining of this special edition of only 50 copies .
Xilitla is the name of a film presented by British-born, Mexico City-based artist Melanie Smith (born 1965) at the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011. The film–and this accompanying book–documents Las Pozas, the extraordinary Surrealist palace and gardens built by Edward James in Xilitla, Mexico, from 1945 until his death in 1984. It mixes disparate media such as video and painting. Smith “dismantled” the frame through conceptual games around repetition and difference, shifting her production from the practice of painting as a potential means of “unframing the frame”.
