Positive Disintegration, the first monograph by Mexican artist Tania Franco Klein, comprises an extended version of her acclaimed series Our Life In The Shadows. The work is influenced by the pursuit of the American Dream lifestyle in the Western world and contemporary practices such as leisure, consumption, media overstimulation and eternal youth, and the psychological sequels they generate in everyday private life. It evokes a mood of isolation, desperation, vanishing and anxiety through fragmented images that exist both fictionally and really. Drawing on the philosopher Byung-Chul Han's idea that we live in an era of exhaustion caused by an incessant compulsion to perform — a neuronal era marked by depression, attention deficit and burnout.