Frieda Toranzo Jaeger exhibition
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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; Open your heart because everything will change, 2023, images courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin and Bortolami, New York.
. A code that copies itself, 2020, image courtesy of the artist and Arcadia Missa, London. Installation view at Modern Art Oxford, photo by Rob Harris.
If you are near Oxford you have one more week to see Mexican artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Through paint and pre-Columbian embroidery techniques, her work reimagines the future covering themes such as tech billionaires involved in space race, colonial legacies, climate change, hyper-capitalist technologies and systems of control and power.
Her work ‘suggests alternative decolonised, queer futures, in which joy and chaos co-exist together as a means of resistance and critique.’ Heart motifs and verdant plants appear alongside driverless cars and space shuttles and as the exhibition title implies there is hope within the darkness.
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: A future in the light of darkness at Modern Art Oxford Exhibition is on until 26 May 2024 at Modern Art Oxford
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