Tania Franco Klein
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Tania Franco Klein (born 1990)[1] is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist working primarily in photography.[2][3]
Franco Klein's first book is Positive Disintegration (2019).[4]
Early life and education
[edit]Franco Klein was born in Mexico City in 1990.[5][6]
She studied architecture in her hometown and in 2016 she received her master's degree at the University Of The Arts London.[7][8]
Life and work
[edit]After leaving London, while living as a nomad she began examining modern anxieties for the creation of her first long-term project Our Life In The Shadows (2016–2018).[2][7] She cites Byung-Chul Han's book The Burnout Society and Kazimierz Dąbrowski's theory of positive disintegration as the underlying concept for this body of work.[2][9] This series was published in 2019 by Editions Bessard as a monograph under the name Positive Disintegration.[10]
In 2018 Franco Klein began working on her ongoing long-term project Proceed To The Route (titled after the command some GPS applications give to users who have strayed off course).[1][11] For the project she uses this command as a metaphor to convey how pre-established life in today's society can be. The series unfolds in the non-places a term coined by the French anthropologist Marc Augé.[7]
At the beginning of 2019 W Magazine named her as one of the 9 young photographers to follow that year.[12]
In the fall of 2019 her exhibition Proceed To The Route was presented by RoseGallery[11] in Santa Monica, Bergamot Station Arts Center.[13] The show compiled pieces from various bodies of work presented as photographs and wallpapers arranged and juxtaposed in unexpected configurations. In 2020 it was selected as one of the top ten exhibitions of the year in Los Angeles by art critic Annabel Osberg, who wrote a review of the show for Artforum.[11] Jacqui Palumbo at CNN described it as "a series that saturates dystopian unease in the warmth of nostalgia."[7]
In 2021 she collaborated with Yalitza Aparicio to publish a book of photographs released by King Kong Magazine.[14][15] That same year, she photographed 4 of the 61 woman who accused Andres Roemer of sexual abuse for Time.[16] Her portrait was selected as one of the best of the year by Time.[17][18]
As of 2022[update], Franco Klein lived and worked in Mexico City.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Tania Franco Klein's best photograph: lost in the California desert". The Guardian. 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ a b c Furman, Anna (2018-03-07). "On Tania Franco Klein's "Our Life in the Shadows"". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "ULTIMATE Newcomers". Phillips. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "The 2019 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist". Aperture. 2019-09-20. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ Pes, Javier (2018-05-17). "7 Young Artists Making a Big Impression at Photo London". Artnet News. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ Loiseau, Benoit (2018-02-27). "the american dream through the lens of a young mexican photographer". i-D. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ a b c d Jacqui Palumbo. "Photographer Tania Franco Klein asks if we can ever truly disconnect". CNN. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "Slow Looking: Tania Franco Klein | The Photographers Gallery". thephotographersgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "Perspective | 'Our life in the shadows,' surreal photos that mirror our fractured times". Washington Post. 2021-02-03. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "Juxtapoz Magazine - Tania Franco Klein: Positive Disintegration". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ a b c "Tania Franco Klein at ROSEGALLERY". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "The 9 Young Photographers You Should Be Following in 2019". W Magazine. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ Ollman, Leah (2019-12-24). "Review: For Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein, self-portraits come with plenty of shadows". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "La actriz Yalitza Aparicio se convierte en la portada de la revista de arte KingKong Magazine". SinEmbargo MX (in Spanish). 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "Yalitza Aparicio posa para la portada de una revista de arte". www.milenio.com (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "Dozens of Women Accused Famous Intellectual Andrés Roemer of Sexual Abuse. They Came Together to Make the World Listen". Time. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ "TIME's Best Portraits of 2021". Time. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ^ Sanabria, Lucy (December 24, 2021). "TIME reconoce a Tania Franco (fotógrafa mexicana) por retrato de sobrevivientes de Andrés Roemer".
- ^ "Juxtapoz Magazine - Tania Franco Klein: The Gorgeous Hitchhike". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2022-01-27.