Kirsten nurtures a tangled relationship between contingency and agency, allowing the work to simultaneously inhabit and abstract our existing ontologies and lived experience. Themes of queer ecology and communal potentiality root the work in an exploration between care and violence in making.
Previous works have considered the relationship between the human and non-human, the violence of language, and the potentiality of radical care. These conceptual questions underscore her largely sculptural practice, although she has also worked across dance, photography, moving image and painting.
Kirsten has previously attended Paris College of Art and is currently an undergraduate at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Selected Shows and Projects
(Upcoming) SitnaltA, The Handbag Factory, opening March 20th 2025
(Upcoming) The Bomb Factory Art Foundation Holborn, opening March 19th 2025
A Pocket Full Of Plenty, Hypha Studios, January 2025
The Entranced Essence, RuptureXIBIT, May 2024
Primordial Soup, The Clapton Table, April 2023 (solo show organised and curated by Kirsten Franks and Anouk Lassalle)
Once Upon A Cube, Scirocco Dance Theatre, Trinity Laben Conservatoire
Resillience of Nature, Zuriel Perkins and Ekta Bagri
Press
https://fadmagazine.com/2025/01/07/4-exhibitions-opening-at-hypha-gallery-spaces-this-week/
https://www.paris.edu/communication-design-student-ariel-ronayne-interviewed-former-foundation-student-kirsten-franks/
https://www.paris.edu/creative-practices-during-lockdown-bfa-photography-student-kirsten-franks/