Daniela Franco (whose artistic name is stylized in lower caps: daniela franco) is a French-Mexican conceptual artist and writer of Syrian origin who lives and works in Paris. Mexico en París Photo , Proceso (magazine)(2003-11-09) and Paris Photo El Universal (2003-11-12). Her body of work is interdisciplinary and explores intersections between experimental writing, pop music and visual art through the creation of archives, temporary fictions and video. She is a San Francisco Art Institute and École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts alumnaSan Francisco Art Institute . as well as a Fulbright scholar. Her projects have received support and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Mexican National Council for Culture and Arts and Colección Júmex.Mexican-American Fund for Culture.Biography from the catalog of the festival Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid. Historias Encontradas on Letras Libres.
Projects
franco's first projects were done in video, using images and sounds from a poetical construction stand, for their form, euphony and rhythm. In On n’attend que toi On n’attend que toi in YouTube. (2003), she illustrated Harry Mathews's poem Jack's Reminders to the King of Karactika with a series of travel images and Ian Monk's voice in off.About On n’attend que toi in Harry Mathews's PennSound archive. daniela franco's work is often based on sets of self-imposed constraints much like the French literary group Oulipo whose members have often collaborated in franco's projects.
Her latest work has been done in the form of interdisciplinary and collaborative projects of fiction and archiving that also question the role of authorship. In 2010 she created face B,face B on What's On The Hi-Fi.About face B by Alistair Fitchett. face B on La Blogotheque. an on-line archive for the contemporary art museum La Maison Rouge in Paris. Face B La maison rouge's Press release for face B. archives LP covers selected by music critic Alex Ross, magazines like The Wire,About face B on The Wire. Vice, Les Inrockuptibles, and McSweeney's, fashion designer agnès b., UbuWeb, the music label Alga Marghen, Oren Ambarchi, Clive Graham, the Oulipo, Philip Andelman for Colette, etc.<ref>[http://faceb.danielafranco.com/ List of face B'''s collaborators].</ref>face B on ARTnews. Face B, l'envers de Vinyl and Face B: Phase 3 by Jean-Jacques Birgé.Sandys at Waikiki Sandys at Waikiki . is an artist book published in 2009 by Editorial RM.Sandys at Waikiki in RM's catalogue and ArtBook. It is the result of the fictional search for the Sandys, a family that lived in California in the 1940s and 1950s. Having found the Sandys' slides at a flea market, daniela franco reconstructed their lives, inviting others to offer clues in the form of poems, letters and even an eyewitness testimony. Reviews of Sandys at Waikiki: 1 Más de arte, 2 Chilango (magazine), and 3 La Vanguardia (article by Marius Serra). Sandys at Waikiki includes texts by Enrique Vila-Matas, Sean Condon, André Alexis, Emmanuel Adely, Juan Villoro, Fabio Morábito, Marius Serra, and members of the Oulipo like Jacques Jouet, and Marcel Bénabou among other writers. on Time Out (magazine) Barcelona .
daniela franco writes about music and art for websites and magazines like Letras Libres or La Tempestad. Articles by daniela franco on Mexico's Afterpop.tv and Letras Libres. She has translated Roy Spivey by Miranda July and Referential by Lorrie Moore (both originally published by The New Yorker) for the magazine Letras Libres. Spanish translation of Roy Spivey by Miranda July for Letras Libres. She has also interviewed and translated poet Kenneth Goldsmith. Conversations with Kenneth Goldsmith
daniela franco is represented by Saenger in Mexico City."daniela franco @ Saenger", Saenger Gallery, Retrieved 1 October 2024.
References
External links
Ortega y Cassette, daniela franco's Tumblr Website for the project face B Press release for L'artiste portatif, project based on Enrique Vila-Matas's A Brief History of Portable Literature'' Videos from a project curated by daniela franco for Mexico's Canal 22 were Electrelane, Fangoria, Riceboy Sleeps and others, revisit cult movies with their own music.