Society of the Spectacle
Artist Tania Franco Klein's first exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City looks at modern solitude, emphasized by the digital age.
Tania Franco Klein casts herself in scenes that recall the atmospheres of Wim Wenders, David Lynch and Hitchcock’s films. She is alone and isolated, in domestic interiors and deserted landscapes. Less concerned with the specificity of the situation than its psychological weight, the images convey a sense of immobility, generated, according to the artist, by societal pressures.
© Tania Franco Klein Dear Stranger (Self-portrait), 2020
© Tania Franco Klein Yellow Tiles (Self-portrait), 2017
© Tania Franco Klein Rounded Mirror, Window (Self-portrait), 2022
“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.”
© Tania Franco Klein Car, Window (Self-portrait), 2018
© Tania Franco Klein Contained (Self-portrait), 2016
© Tania Franco Klein Valley (Self-portrait), 2019
The exhibition Long Story Short will be on view at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City until December 21.
