Tania Franco Klein

Influenced by the pursuit of the “American Dream” lifestyle and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, eternal youth, and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday private life. The project seeks to evoke a mood of isolation, desperation, vanishing, and anxiety, through fragmented images, that exist both...
Influenced by the pursuit of the “American Dream” lifestyle and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation, eternal youth, and the psychological sequels they generate in our everyday private life. The project seeks to evoke a mood of isolation, desperation, vanishing, and anxiety, through fragmented images, that exist both in a fictional and realistic way. Philosopher Byung-Chul Han says that we live in an era of exhaustion and fatigue, caused by an incessant compulsion to perform. We have left behind the immunological era, and now experience the neuronal era characterized by neuropsychiatric diseases such as depression, attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder, burnout syndrome and bipolar disorder. The characters in my photographs have the constant need to escape, to always look outside. My characters find themselves almost anonymous, melting in places, vanishing into them, constantly looking for any possibility of escape. They find themselves alone, desperate and exhausted. Constantly in an odd line between trying and feeling defeated. 
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Contained, Self-Portrait (2016)
Morning Rituals, (2016)
Body, Self-Portrait (2016)
Toaster, Self-Portrait (2016)
The Waiting, (2016)
First Act, Self-Portrait (2016)
The Car, (2016)
Locked Rooms, Self-Portrait (2016)
Positive Disintegration, Self-Portrait (2017)
Border Line, (2016)