Exhibition from November 7th to January 18th, 2025
For the first time in Paris, Tania Franco Klein will exhibit her work at Les filles
du calvaire gallery from November 7 to December 21. Two of her major series
will be showcased on rue Chapon: Break in Case of Emergency and Mercado de Sonora.
Break in Case of Emergency stems from Klein's fascination with catharsis, an
Aristotelian concept: a process that allows for the regulation or annihilation of
passions by staging them in tragedy. In her cinematic self-portraits, she depicts our modern anxieties. These images, dazzling in their surrealism, evoke a multitude of deep emotions from our contemporary psyche. Klein invites us to engage in her meticulous exploration of the mysterious, the enigmatic, and even the taboo. The female subjects, placed in disjointed scenarios, provoke an ambivalent voyeurism in the audience. The fiction, skillfully staged, affects and shapes our emotions in novel ways.
Mercado de Sonora is Tania Franco Klein’s exploration of the elixirs, curses and cures found within the stalls of Mexico City’s
famed public market.
In a space where spiritual objects and desires transcend class barriers, where promises to bridge the social divides of Mexico are sold, the Mercado de Sonora offers more than mere products for sale. The underground is brought to street-level in a marketplace where exotic animal sales are permissible, and serums and soaps allege to exorcise societal ills. These illicit sales and proclaimed panaceas reveal and reflect the political corruption and social, structural faults of a consumerist society always in need of quick fixes.
This room opens a window into scenes of the occult, imagined through Franco Klein’s cinematic eye.
Born in 1990 in Mexico, Tania Franco Klein lives and works between Mexico, the
United Kingdom, and the United States. She is currently dedicated to photography, GIFs, and installation art. Her works have been exhibited in Europe, the United States, and Mexico, and her series Subject Studies was recently acquired by the MoMA and The Getty. Her first publication, Positive Disintegration (2019), was nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation Award.
Exhibition included in the Photo Days 2024 itinerary.
