Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: A future in the light of darkness

About Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: A future in the light of darkness

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 lovemaking, 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.

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