Image: Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Yancey Richardson Gallery will reopen on September 10 with ‘RAGE™’, a solo exhibition of new work by Tania Franco Klein and the artist’s debut exhibition with the New York gallery. On view through October 17, 2026, the presentation will bring together photography, video and immersive installations examining rage as a personal response, a form of collective action and a condition shaped by culture and mass media.
The exhibition’s central series considers rage as an emotion that can be both genuinely experienced and deliberately produced. Franco Klein’s works draw on the visual languages of advertising, news reporting, cinema and photography, using familiar forms of communication to explore how emotions are circulated, intensified and interpreted. The trademark symbol in the title points to the artist’s interest in rage as something that can be manufactured and weaponized by political and cultural forces.
Rather than presenting anger as a single or purely destructive state, Franco Klein’s new work addresses its opposing capacities. The exhibition considers rage as a force with creative potential as well as destructive power, an apparently irrational response that may also express a necessary reaction to contemporary conditions. Her photographs and videos place these contradictions within constructed scenes that remain visually referential while retaining an urgent emotional charge.
One featured work is ‘The Scream (Self-portrait)’, from the series ‘RAGE™’, made in 2025. Across the series, Franco Klein appropriates symbolic and representational languages from art history and popular media, reflecting her stated concern with the ways people absorb images, ideas and emotional frameworks from the world around them. Other works address the challenges that artificial intelligence poses to representation and interpretation, while some examine how subtitles can shift or manipulate the meaning of an image.
The presentation continues Franco Klein’s multidisciplinary approach to photography. Her installations combine photographs, murals and videos, treating psychological experience as something formed through contact with the wider social world rather than as an exclusively private reality. Constructed female figures frequently appear in states of tension or uncertainty, while light, color and carefully selected objects give her open-ended compositions the quality of cinematic fragments.
Franco Klein was born in Mexico in 1990. She studied architecture at Centro Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City and earned a master’s degree in photography from the University of the Arts London. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty Center, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Norton Museum of Art. Her first publication, ‘Positive Disintegration’, was nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award in 2019. She lives and works in Mexico City.
‘RAGE™’ will be on view at Yancey Richardson Gallery, 525 West 22nd Street, New York, from September 10 through October 17, 2026. The opening reception is scheduled for September 10 from 6 to 8 p.m.
