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<sup>In a State of Being is an ongoing body of work. This group of sculptural wall pieces furthers Franca’s investigation into the nature of existence by which society and the human condition are mediated through the need and the inevitable consequence for living things to leave a mark in the world.

Composed of a combination of multiple images of the sky taken with an iPhone, these elements remind us of her consistent interest in the Sublime. In combination with mark-making through oil pastels and oil sticks, the pieces reenact as a personal mark of existence in our current moment in time where human traces have mostly been made online. By combining and layering images, surfaces and pigments – a technique characteristic of Franca’s practice – the artist has worked directly onto textile with oil pastels and oil sticks varying in shades of yellow, orange and black.

These works, as their title suggests, are an intentional visualization of commonness in the form of the sky and traces of living things by the artist's hands. Further emphasis and contrast is created through the intervention of the computer, which for Franca acts simultaneously to reveal the notion of human traces in our current reality. Recalling both the mark of existence in the form of physical mark-making, the computer led by the artist and the act of taking a photograph in a certain moment in time at a certain place, they come to symbolize that which binds life as a mark of existence.





In a State of Being III
Satin silk, voile, oil pastels, oil stick, C-type
Size variable
2021






Close Up - In a State of Being III









In a State of Being II
Satin silk, voile, oil pastels, C-type
Size variable
2021















In a State of Being I
Satin silk, voile, PVC
Size variable
2021</sup>