Franziska Klotz focusses on young people in her "sur-faces" series. She uses selfies and photos with which the adolescents present themselves online as models. We thus see self-portrayals of young people, captured anew through the eyes and painting hand of Franziska Klotz.
The title "sur-faces" alludes both to the smooth surfaces of smartphones and to the faces of the mostly female protagonists. Their bodies, photographed in protected spaces, open up to the vastness of the internet. Where does the materiality of being remain in this process, how can we approach the young people artistically despite the separating displays? Franziska Klotz chooses an expressive and fragmenting way of painting: the canvases, some of which are left raw, have a decisive influence on the expression of the paintings, making it seem as if they are just as vulnerable as the people depicted. The fleeting, often trivial moments that the mobile phone photos originally captured - created in the unreal period between childhood and adulthood - are made permanent in Franziska Klotz's works.
