Valentina Booking presents Franxx Live - celebrating the opening of “Fashioned In Franxx”, a retrospect and examination of a select collection of the artist’s custom handmade fashions.
Interdisciplinary artist Franxx interprets their universe through a variety of media. There’s a sense of play and purity with what they’re able to access in pushing and blending the boundaries of music, fashion, graphic design, and performance.
The exhibit displays a handful of Franxx’s handmade fashions - showcasing clothing as sculpture memorializing turning points in the artists life and career. You’re invited to see the life lived through these living garments. Through every hand sewn intimate detail, brush stroke, grommet, and dried sweat, the artist invites you to imagine the conversations, memories, people, and energy these garments have come into contact with and consider the own life that’s lived by the clothing you have on. This exhibit honors the relationship between Franxx and their garments, and invites questioning and curiosity of the audiences relationship with their garments - posing subtle questions about materialism, capitalism, and sustainability.
Franxx Live will be an opening reception to the month long exhibit at Rhizome - hosting time to commemorate the space with an intimate live performance and discussion with the artist Franxx, with musical support by Z Northy. The artist will perform a medley of music that’s been released through their private small house label, FRNX-WRLD.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Franxx is a Non-Binary Latinx Pop musician and performer formerly based out of New York City but now back in their hometown just outside of Washington D.C. Heavily influenced by the soundscape of the late 90’s/00’s and a desire to create community surrounding the revolution of higher consciousness, their music is crafted on the wide architecture of experimental electronic sound - lyrically gliding on the boundary of the gender binary, awareness and subconscious, delivered with a punch of authenticity and passion, Franxx creates safe spaces where all people can be free.
