^{The four registers throughout this video archeological, paleontological, erotic and primal-overlap one another in an elliptical manner, suggesting a different ontological order between bodies of different types.The screen in the installation has been transformed into a kind of painting that works at the same time as a window into the world. The actual paintings in the show have left the walls and now function as a group of screens in which images juxtapose like palimpsests offering us an immediate and simultaneous reading that stands in contrast with the temporality implicit in the moving image}

^{_{Exhibition view of «Maps, mud and mundo(s)» by Melanie Smith at PROYECTO PARALELO, Mexico City, 2015. Photo: Lake Verea.}}

^{_{Stills from «Maps, mud, mundo(s)», Melanie Smith, 2015, HD video, 14′}}