Tania Franco Klein: RAGE™ at Yancey Richardson turns anger into a visual system rather than a simple emotion. On view from September 10 to October 17, 2026, the exhibition marks Franco Klein’s debut solo show with the gallery and extends her interest in the uneasy overlap between psychology, media and public life.
Her new series treats rage as both symptom and construct. The photographs and videos draw on the language of advertising, cinema and news imagery, but they do not settle into quotation. Instead, they stage tension through female figures, vivid color and carefully controlled light, building images that feel suspended between performance and breakdown. The result is not illustration of a mood, but an inquiry into how emotion is shaped, circulated and used.
Franco Klein has made a practice of questioning whether psychological states are private at all. In her work, subjectivity appears as something formed through exposure to culture, politics and image systems. That idea gives RAGE™ its sharpest edge: the trademark in the title is more than a gesture of irony. It points to the way outrage is branded, amplified and monetized, while still remaining a real response to pressure, fear and instability.
The exhibition also folds in a wider concern with representation under technological strain. Alongside her signature staged photographs, Franco Klein presents work that confronts the pressures of artificial intelligence, subtitling and image manipulation. Those additions sharpen the show’s central question: what happens to feeling when images become easier to manufacture, edit and weaponize than ever before?
Franco Klein’s pictures do not offer resolution, and that is part of their force. They treat rage as circular, consuming itself even as it carries political energy. In that friction between control and disorder, her work finds a distinctly contemporary register, one that feels less like commentary than diagnosis.
Image: Tania Franco Klein, The Scream (self-portrait), from the series RAGE™, 2025 © Tania Franco Klein. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York.
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