There are different ways of being lost, and intention might be what makes all the difference. Often, when you say you’re lost, Tania Franco Klein tell…
There are different ways of being lost, and intention might be what makes all the difference. Often, when you say you’re lost, Tania Franco Klein tells me, “You’re actually feeling other things. You’re not actually lost. Maybe you’re feeling isolated, frustrated, anxious; that feeling comes from different places.” In her work, the Mexico City-based photographer searches out such places. She outlines a universe where they might live, begins to color it in, and during the process, finds she has arrived at some sort of destination. Being lost is sometimes the best way to find where you are going. “There’s something comforting about the acknowledgment of it,” agrees Franco Klein, “knowing you’re going somewhere, even if you don’t know where.”
Tania Franco Klein’s work is highly influenced by her fascination with social behavior and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, emotional disconnection, the obsession with eternal youth, the American dream in the Western world and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday life. Her latest solo exhibition, Proceed to the Route, is currently on view at Rose Gallery.
“I lost my sense of home,” Franco Klein says of her life lived between Mexico City, California and London. Recently I had the great pleasure of attending an exhibition walk-through with Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein of her solo show, Proceed to the Ro
Recently I had the great pleasure of attending an exhibition walk-through with Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein of her solo show, Proceed to the Route at the Rose Gallery in Santa Monica. Tania is a compelling story teller and provided an engaging narration and perspective of work that takes the viewer through a cinematic journey of internal and external road trips.
