Franko B > works > performance:
I Miss You
performance
(1999-2005)
about | photos | videos | texts & reviews | related works
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about:
Assuming the likeness of a catwalk show, but with his body naked, abject, monochromatic and bleeding, Franko B plays with the worlds of fashion and art whilst confronting the human form at its most existential and essential.
performances:
2005
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
2003
Tate Modern, London
2002
Circolo des Bellas Artes, Madrid
Cenpi, Beograd, Serbia
Gallerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000
Art Live, Turin
Malmo, Sweden
Fierce Festival, Birmingham
Beaconsfield, London
1999
Antwerp
photos:
photographs by Hugo Glendinning and Mauel Vason
videos:
texts:
“When Franko walked out of our view and the lights when up, I was overcome by tears – not by gentle tears, but by a wave of feeling so intense it threatened to take me over with wracking sobs — the kind of crying that makes you shudder.”
Critical Tears: Franko B’s I Miss You, Jennifer Doyle (2006) >
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• Critical Tears: Franko B's I Miss You
Jennifer Doyle (2006)
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• To See You, To Be You, To Become You: I Miss You, phenomenology, performing bodies and other things
Ruvi Simons (2017)
reviews:
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• Bloody Sunday
Art Review (May 2003)
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• No Blood No Glory
Rachel Capbel-Johnston, The Times (May 2001)
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• We’re Close Enough To See Into His Eyes And To Watch His Chest Heave
Louise Gray, The Independent (April 2000)
I Miss You: about | photos | videos | texts & reviews | related works
related works:
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• Blood Canvas
series of collage and wrapped objects (1999-2002)
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• Haute Couture
series of gaments (1999-2008)
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• I Miss You: TV Version
video (1997)
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• Aktion 398
performance (1998-2002)
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• Oh Lover Boy
performance (2001-2005)
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• Still Life
performance (2003-2006)
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• I'm Here
performance (2021)