Museo Jumex exhibits Michael Smith`s video Imagine the view from here!
(Artdaily.org)

Museo Jumex is presenting Imagine the view from here!, by the artist Michael Smith, whose practice uses wry humor to pitch the everyday experiences of aging, failure and enthusiasm against aspirational images projected by corporate and institutional cultures. This project includes an installation and a video starring `Mike,” the artist’s alter-ego, who greets every new possibility with a naïve and slack-jawed combination of confusion and enthusiasm. The video Imagine the view from here! finds Mike visiting a possible timeshare located within the Museo Jumex that promotes a contemporary lifestyle, in comparison with other established expatriate communities of San Miguel de Allende. Commissioned for the museum and filmed on location, the video is presented within an installation that includes Smith’s 1996 work How to Curate Your Own Group Exhibition, an infomercial that reflects the