Paris Photo 2026
November 11 – 15, 2026
Tania Franco Klein, Upside Down Globe, (self-portrait), from RAGE™, 2026. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Not Sleepwalker (after Eric Fischl), from RAGE™, 2025. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Cowboy Shot, Hose, Side (self-portrait), from RAGE™, 2025. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Women, Water Guns, from the series RAGE™, 2026. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Scar Tissue, Rage, from the series RAGE™, 2026. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Barking Dog, Exploding Soda, from the series RAGE™, 2026. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Control Room, Tornado (Self-portrait), 2026, from the series RAGE™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Back, Mirror (Self-portrait), 2025, from the series RAGE™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, The Scream Televised (Self-portrait), 2025, from the series RAGE™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Game Over (Self-portrait), 2025, from the series RAGE™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Cowboy Shot, Hose, Wide (Self-portrait), 2025, from the series RAGE™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, The Scream (Self-portrait), 2025, from the series RAGE™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Office, TV (Self-portrait), 2025, from the series RAGE™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Eye of the Storm, Diptych, 2026, from the series RAGE™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Manifesto: Scream and Subtitle, A rage from 7:15 to 8:00am every Monday. From the series RAGE ™, 2026. Dye sublimation print on aluminum box mount.
Tania Franco Klein, Manifesto, Subtitle, 2026, from the series RAGE ™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Manifesto: Subtitle, 2026, from the series RAGE ™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Manifesto: Scream and Subtitle, 2026, from the series RAGE ™. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Subject Studies, The Getty, Los Angeles, CA. 2025.
Tania Franco Klein, Subject Studies series, 2025, Archival pigment print, dimensions vary.
Tania Franco Klein, Subject Studies, New Photography, 2025: Lines of Belonging, MoMA, 2025.
Tania Franco Klein, Pig for Santería Sacrifice, 2019, from the series Mercado de Sonora. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Cocodrile Pet, 2019, from the series Mercado de Sonora. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Rounded Mirror, Window (Self-portrait), 2022, from the series Break in Case of Emergency. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Pan, Fire, Kitchen (Self-portrait), 2022, from the series Break in Case of Emergency. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Crystal Blocks (Self-portrait), 2022, from the series Break in Case of Emergency. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Eggs, Fork, and Flies (Self-portrait), 2022, from the series Break in Case of Emergency. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Tunnel (Self-portrait), 2022, from the series Break in Case of Emergency. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Lamp, Face (Self-portrait), 2021, from the series Break in Case of Emergency. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Dear Stranger (Self-portrait), 2020, from the series Proceed To The Route. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Proceed To the Route (Self-portrait), 2018, from the series Proceed To The Route. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Rear-window, Mirror (Self-portrait), 2019, from the series Proceed To The Route. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Meadow, 2021, from the series Proceed To The Route. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Railroad Track, 2021, from the series Proceed To The Route. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Pool, Wig (Self-portrait), 2022, from the series Proceed To The Route. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Yellow Tiles (Self-portrait), 2017, from the series Positive Disintegration. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Ophelia (Self-portrait), 2018, from the series Positive Disintegration. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, The Waiting, 2016, from the series Positive Disintegration. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Positive Disintegration (Self-portrait), 2016, from the series Positive Disintegration. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Phone Line (Self-portrait), 2019, from the series Positive Disintegration. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein, Body (Self-portrait), 2016, from the series Positive Disintegration. Archival pigment print.
Tania Franco Klein’s multidisciplinary practice investigates themes of modern anxiety, media manipulation, and psychology. With a background in architecture, Franco Klein constructs immersive installations that combine large-scale cinematic photographs, murals, video and text-based sculptural objects. Her work engages with the fragmented nature of contemporary existence, exploring how individuals navigate identity, solitude, and performative behavior in a hyper-connected world. Characterized by rich, saturated color and deep contrasts of light and shadow, Franco Klein’s photographs often depict female subjects in states of tension within ambiguous narratives that function both as cinematic fragments and self-contained worlds.
Her series Positive Disintegration (2016–2019) draws on ideas from Byung-Chul Han’s The Burnout Society which critiques our obsession with productivity, optimization, and relentless self-improvement, fueled by an over-dependence on technology. Using female characters played by the artist, Franco Klein visualizes the emotional consequences of this condition: anxiety, exhaustion, and detachment. The characters, played by the artist, embody a society overwhelmed by its own expectations, where personal fulfillment is endlessly pursued but rarely reached.
Referencing a road trip through the California desert when her GPS continually repeated the phrase “proceed to the route” despite having no signal, Franco Klein’s project Proceed to the Route (2018-2022) offers a meditation on the illusion of freedom in our hyper-connected digital age. While the series isn’t overtly about technology, it channels the emotional dissonance of a world where disconnection is both feared and longed for.
For Mercado de Sonora (2019), Franco Klein decontextualized the magical products from the famous Mexico City market by bringing them into the home. Staging richly colored, intimate scenes of the occult - from the disquieting imagery of a Santeria pig sacrifice and the curling tail of a crocodile in the living room, to locks of hair, love potions and spiritual cleansing with an egg – Franco Klein draws us into this enchanting, ritualistic world.
With Break in Case of Emergency (2020-2022), Franco Klein entered a new emotional register. What began as an investigation into catharsis, initially imagined through dramatic acts of destruction, evolved into something more playful. The images are absurd, tragicomic, and richly detailed, featuring women subverting the domestic space. The result is a rich visual universe where catharsis arises not from chaos, but from playful autonomy.
SUBJECT STUDIES: CHAPTER 1, a long-term, multi panel series, is an anthropological investigation into perception, bias, and cultural projection. Photographing over 100 people across four carefully staged scenes, Franco Klein examines how meaning shifts depending on who occupies the frame. The series raises vital questions about representation and the unconscious act of profiling, challenging viewers to confront their assumptions and the narratives they project. Featured in, and subsequently acquired by, the Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging as well as New Acquisitions at the Getty Center, 2025-2026.
Her most recent, ongoing series, RAGE ™ , presents rage as the talismanic emotion of our time, something widely felt just as it is manufactured, manipulated and deliberately produced by both the media and the political world. She explores the multivalent nature of rage—as collective action, personal choice and cultural fabrication—through images that cite advertising and news reporting, cinema and photography, while remaining suffused with an emotion that, while referential, is still tangibly felt. In addition to photographs, RAGE™ includes a series of marble, granite and photographic wall plaques that feature lines of text drawn from Franco Klein’s fifty-line Manifesto of Rage.
Franco Klein (b.1990 in Mexico) received her BA in Architecture from Centro Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City and her MA in Photography from the University of Arts London. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Museum of Contemporary Art,San Diego, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA; and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL. Her first publication, Positive Disintegration (2019), was nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award. Tania Franco Klein lives and works in Mexico City.
September 14, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Yancey Richardson congratulates Tania Franco Klein on her participation in New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging at MoMA. The exhibition will feature Franco Klein’s recent body of work Subject Studies, an anthropological investigation into perception, bias, and cultural projection. Photographing over 100 people across four carefully staged scenes, Franco Klein examines how meaning shifts depending on who occupies the frame. The series raises vital questions about representation and the unconscious act of profiling, challenging viewers to confront their assumptions and the narratives they project.
