User:Franky
Clara Franke is a visual artist focussing on photography, film making, graphic design, ceramics and costume/clothing design.
She was born in 1998 in Hamburg and studied in Albuquerque (attending Media Arts Collaborative Charter School in 2015), Groningen (Bachelor in Design at Academie Minerva 2022), Berlin (internship with THE PEOPLE° in 2021) and Rotterdam (currently following the Master "Lens Based Media" at Piet Zwart Institute).
While constantly evolving, what one always finds in her work is an underlying sense of muted colours and a general dreamy aesthetic that can be seen in all of her creative work.
Recently she finished and self published her first photo book about the old hospital, now communal squat, called ORKZ in Groningen, which was also her home.
frankeclara@aol.com // @frankeclara
Methods
Until the impossible can be proven impossible, is it?
Notes by Aitana
(Y) What have you been making?
She has different people working in different... Making clothing and bioplastics. Making materials herself. She has been doing lots of pottery and recently finished a short film about her best friend Amber and photobook about Berlin. She likes combining different mediums.
(Y) Do you have any preferences? May be is it more about combining?
She feel lot of fulfilfment working with different materials and textiles, so she is may be trying to get this into dthe digital work. For her intimate has a connection with intimate connexion. (Y) feeling connecting in your films
(Y) Have you done this in your previos work
She says it is different to describe her previous work. May be graduation projects: ... econd hand materials, depicting that through photography.
(Y) Connexion?
Installations to have space - physic space- to get people connect with each other. Not only having objects but Into the sustainability direction. Installation to tie all this together.
(Y) How would you that in front of you? How you imagine that?
Slow close shots of feeling of intimacy, someone working with the material. People working on crafts and what they used to be. Now is harder to make crafts and we as artist we stay so far away from it. People tend to be mesmerized watching people doing crafts.
(Y) Yes, people just doing that.What is next?
Physical intimacy and friendship? Her boyfriend surroundings. Beautiful
(Y) How you'd materialized this idea?
This is hard. Making scarfs miss the concept? More of building sets and proposal for photo shoots or more sculptural in some ways, with pottery in a more abstract through organic and abstract shapes to get the same feeling of softness. Organic shapes benefits. Making daily objects that reminds you the shapes of nature, organic of natural shapes. Little changes in your life, may be a privileged position may be.
(Y) Mental health is really important for you. (Y) About with your boyfriend circle, have you any ideas
Photo or film would be really nice. How to capture a situation that happens normally. Stage VS natural? How to shot in a natural, not to feel stage. There is a struggle there. Close up slomo shots of people touching to just create an atmosphere and an atmosphere short film. Or photographs.
(Y) Photographs, photobooks are very important for you. Could you combine this with this idea...
She wants to print on fabrics.
(Y) could that "solve" the problem of the "staging", combining the material love with the visuals.
Current Projects