The project is 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. It seeks to evoke a mood of isolation, desperation, vanishing and anxiety, through fragmented images that exist both in a fictional way and a real one. Philosopher Byung-Chul Han posits that we live in an era of exhaustion and fatigue, caused by an incessant compulsion to perform. We have leſt the “immunological era” behind, and now experience the “neuronal era” characterized by neuropsychiatric diseases such as depression, attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder, burnout syndrome and bipolar disorder.

Franco Klein’s characters find themselves alone, almost anonymous, desperate and exhausted, melting in places, vanishing into them, constantly looking out for any possibility to escape; on an odd line between trying and feeling defeated.

Tania Franco Klein