Franca Fay is a performance and video artist. In her process she adapts and appropriates technical knowledge as a form of self empowerment and reflects on how she uses and consumes media and technology. In her work she studies relationships between body and technology, between humans, performers and audiences. Franca's process includes research in popular culture and the history of patriarchy; working with movement, video, sound; being in dialogue with her surroundings; and writing texts. As a result she is deconstructing and reengineering romance and feelings.
Floating somewhere in the universe between 2009 and 2023 she talks about relationships, growing up, gender, love and romance. Franca works with love as a practice and creates an aesthetic she calls new romance, while she questions her surrounding societies romantic vocabulary and values.
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based in Basel
Education
2024-26 Master of Arts in Fine Arts, Institute Art, Gender and Nature, HGK FHNW
2021-24 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Institute Art, Gender and Nature, HGK FHNW
2023 Erasmus at LUCA School of Arts, Ghent
Grants
2023
Reisepreis Kunstverein Basel
Performance
2024
monologue of a mother, lover, daughter or just your personal chair / loveletters,
YOU CAN BREAK A ROCK WITH AN EGG, Kunsthaus Baselland
Performance Jukebox, Basel Socal Club 2024
for me it was a romantic comedy, Salon - performance exhibition, Villa Bannwart, Basel
2023
the rebirth of venus, Davor, danach und alles dazwischen, Kunsthalle Basel
the rebirth of venus , Kunst Kola mini-festival, Chrämerhuus Langenthal
for me it was a romantic comedy, growing up with the internet, electrical feeling, in my current perception and dancing on my phone, murmur, Kunsthal Gent, Gent
The Birth of Venus 3.0, Changing Rooms, DOCK, Basel
2022
You have to look sexy 3.0, Changing Rooms, DOCK, Basel
The Birth of Venus 2.0, Friday Beyeler - I Hear a New World! - 14 Miaows of the Future, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
The Birth of Venus, Der TANK, Basel
You have to look sexy 2.0, PANCH, Soziale Eleganz, Bang Bang Performance Festival, Tinguely Museum, Basel
You have to look sexy, ACT Performance Fesitval, Schlauchthaus Biel
Exhibitions and Screenings
2024
FLIRT, Softspace, Basel
YOU CAN BREAK A ROCK WITH AN EGG, Kunsthaus Basel Land
F1, Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol
2023
Davor, danach und alles dazwischen, Kunsthalle Basel
murmur, Kunsthal Gent, Gent
for me it was a romantic comedy, OFFOFFCinema, Gent
2022
Changing Rooms, DOCK, Basel
Basis 2022, CIVIC, Basel
Superimposition, Der TANK, Basel
Der Tank, Der TANK, Basel
2021
Nähe-Distanz, Freilagerplatz 11, Basel