Pig for a Santería sacrifice from the Sonora Market, 2019

Tania Franco Klein is a Mexican artist whose practice centers on photography. Her work examines modern forms of isolation, performance, and emotional disconnection in an age of hyperconnectivity, often through cinematic self-portraits staged in ambiguous domestic or roadside settings. 

Franco Klein was born in Mexico City in 1990. She studied architecture at the Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión in Mexico City (2009–2013), where she first experimented with photography. She later earned a master’s degree in photography from the University of the Arts London (2016). After graduating, she lived nomadically between Mexico and the United States, a period that shaped her preoccupation with transience, restlessness, and belonging.