A BIRD IN CALIFORNIA (2018)
8 Polaroids
7,9x7,7 cm
“A Bird in California by Franziska Kolling has many of the absurdist hallmarks of 70s performance and conceptual artists like Joan Jonas and Annegret Soltau. Kolling uses the bird as a metaphor for homesickness and her own desire to fly away back home when the desire compels her. While the sentiment sounds peotic and sentimental, there’s a goofiness to the snapshots that lend a compelling humor to the images. In the meantime, these polaroids can’t help but feel nostalgic for their very medium which has now slipped through obsolescence into a fine art format. the lingerie kolling’s subject is wearing also references homemade erotica, a genre polaroid photography was well suited for as is evidenced in the work of italian designer Carlo Mollino who used the medium for exactly that.”
May 2019
8 Polaroids
7,9x7,7 cm
“A Bird in California by Franziska Kolling has many of the absurdist hallmarks of 70s performance and conceptual artists like Joan Jonas and Annegret Soltau. Kolling uses the bird as a metaphor for homesickness and her own desire to fly away back home when the desire compels her. While the sentiment sounds peotic and sentimental, there’s a goofiness to the snapshots that lend a compelling humor to the images. In the meantime, these polaroids can’t help but feel nostalgic for their very medium which has now slipped through obsolescence into a fine art format. the lingerie kolling’s subject is wearing also references homemade erotica, a genre polaroid photography was well suited for as is evidenced in the work of italian designer Carlo Mollino who used the medium for exactly that.”
May 2019
Text: Liv Moe, Founding Director at Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento
