A few years ago, when we spoke to the brilliant and cinematic photographer Tania Franco Klein in our Winter 2022 Quarterly, she told us about her work, "You’re actually feeling other things. You're not actually lost. Maybe you’re feeling isolated, frustrated, anxious; that feeling comes from different places. There's something comforting about the acknowledgment of it, knowing you’re going somewhere, even if you don't know where."
Yancey Richardson is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition for Mexico City native and Juxtapoz featured photographer and staff favorite, Tania Franco Klein. Long Story Short will be on view in the project gallery from October 24 through December 21.
From the gallery: Franco Klein’s debut exhibition will present a selection of works from her seminal series Break In Case Of Emergency, Proceed To The Route, and Positive Disintegration. These series evolve with no definitive beginning or ending, taking shape through continuous emotional exercises and explorations of social behavior and states of solitude within ambiguous spaces and time.Franco Klein’s practice centers around the examination of modern anxieties and the performative stresses that come from living life online: a constant fixation on self-improvement and productivity, an endurance of media overstimulation, and a propensity to profile ourselves, and others, to fit into today's eclectic and fragmented realities.
Often using herself as the subject, Franco Klein creates vivid, cinematic photographs. In her work, female characters inhabit a visually rich world, recalling the psychological film noir dramas of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch. Franco Klein juxtaposes a nostalgic affection for and disillusionment with the narrative of a woman trapped in the loneliness of domestic settings, as seen in Toaster (Self-portrait), 2016 or within the dystopian western landscape of Car, Window (Self-portrait), 2018 and Valley, (Self-portrait), 2019. Her figures cannot escape the tension of their environment, or the stress of how they are seen by others. As the artist explains, “We are always trying to create identities with social media to express the good part of ourselves, as if there is some kind of shame in knowing what we are on the other side... because we feel that we have failed in what we are supposed to be.”
