{"id":16,"date":"2026-01-09T07:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:53:32","slug":"context","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Context"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>May Franzen is an artist and illustrator working with sequential images: artist books and comics. Drawing is the core of her practice: a slow, manual process through which she observes and documents the reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work engages with questions of animal rights, ecology, and human responsibility by placing images in deliberate relation to one another. Through juxtaposition\u2014between species, scales, and viewpoints \u2014 her drawings reveal shifts in perception and unsettle familiar hierarchies. Rather than communicating fixed messages, the works open spaces of ambiguity and reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-base-background-color has-background\" style=\"border-width:1px;margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:5px;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:5px;font-size:clamp(1.092rem, 1.092rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.105), 1.7rem);\">Upcoming Events<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>March 2026 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fumetto.ch\/exhibitions\/between-animals\">Between Animals<\/a><\/em>, solo exhibition, Bellini Locanda Ticinese, Lucerne (CH), curated by the team of the Fumetto Comic Festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mai 2026 <em>Brief and never Ending<\/em>, group exhibition, Christine X Art Gallery, Sliema (MT), curated by Emma Weller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-base-background-color has-background\" style=\"border-width:1px;margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:5px;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:5px;font-size:clamp(1.092rem, 1.092rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 1.105), 1.7rem);\">Past Events<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>2023 <em>Proxemik<\/em>, exhibition of the winners of the Brandenburg Design Award, Gew\u00f6lbehalle HBPG, Potsdam (DE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024 <em>Proxemik<\/em>, book exhibition as part of Berlin Design Week, Peter Behrens Building, Berlin (DE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 <em>Between Animals<\/em>, exhibition of nominees for the Hamburg Picture Book Award, Museum f\u00fcr Kunst und Gewerbe MK&amp;G, Hamburg (DE), curated by Verein Neues Bilderbuch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 <em>The Language of Dreams<\/em>, group exhibition, Gemelli Ltd. Gallery, Attard (MT), curated by Emma Weller<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May Franzen is an artist and illustrator working with sequential images: artist books and comics. Drawing is the core of her practice: a slow, manual process through which she observes and documents the reality. Her work engages with questions of animal rights, ecology, and human responsibility by placing images in deliberate relation to one another. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"blank","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayfranzen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}