Frieda Toranzo Jaeger's first monograph covers more than seven years of artistic practice and includes 60 works, 8 shows, an essay by Jack Halberstam as well as a conversation between Toranzo Jaeger and Diego del Valle Ríos.
Painting generates a knowledge like no other, that of the internal world, and it is because of this immediacy that painting affects us most directly. I vandalize the semiotics of cars, their veneers, their engines and emblems in order to destabilize the accepted lexicon of neocapitalist consumption. The ideological power of desire runs in, and at the same time, ruins us. By criticizing the ideologies of hetero-patriarchal capitalism, my paintings give new semiological power to the collective imagery we produce and attempt to decolonize our imaginations and ideas. Conceptualizing utopias and dystopic futures opens a path where we can surrender ourselves to chaos, and propose an alternative future beyond the despair of the present.
— Frieda Toranzo Jaeger
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger (born 1988 in Mexico City) is a Mexican artist. Through her dynamic and modular paintings, informed by research into the history of painting, she proposes a futurity of queer freedom, connection to nature, and the creation of new spaces of joy and pleasure. Solo exhibitions include Modern Art Oxford (2024); MoMA PS1, New York (2022); HFBK Hamburg (2022); Baltimore Museum of Art (2021).
