Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: A future in the light of darkness

16 March

26 May 2024

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s intricately embroidered multi-panel paintings remix iconography from western art history with indigenous techniques to subvert and challenge dominant power structures and historical narratives.

Toranzo Jaeger’s work uses pre-Columbian Mexican embroidery techniques to disrupt familiar motifs of well-known western artworks as a way of proposing an existence outside of structural systems of control. Using recurring imagery of queer love making, lush tropical greenery and brightly coloured flora, intermixed with symbols of corporate power – the car, the engine, and the spacecraft – she invites us to think critically about the potential for an alternative future beyond colonialism and hyper capitalism.

This exhibition is the first UK solo institutional presentation of new and recent works by the Mexico City-based artist.

Please find the audio guide for the exhibition notes here:

Exhibition Notes

Children's Activity Sheet

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, If the future is full of death, the past is the only alternative source of inspiration to the traditions and memories of a zombified world, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin and Bortolami, New York

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Untitled, 2019. Courtesy of Collection Luxoom, Berlin

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, End of Capitalism, the Fountain, 2022. Courtesy Francica’s Collection Milan

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Open your heart because everything will change, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin

Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, A code that copies itself, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Arcadia Missa, London

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This exhibition is supported by:

A future in the light of darkness is made possible thanks to the support of the Modern Art Oxford Commissioning Circle and Isis Removals & Storage. With additional thanks to Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Arcadia Missa, London, Bortolami, New York.