Modern Art Oxford
Western iconography is subverted to play with colonial ideas of art, intertwined with Indigenous embroidery techniques, paintings and sculpture
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger wants to go for a ride. Don’t worry if your hands are too busy with – uh – other things to take the wheel. Her painted vehicles drive themselves. All you need to do is sit back and enjoy.
From the ceiling of Modern Art Oxford dangles a vast double-sided heart. Its facetted surface is painted with machine details, rendered in femme pink on one side, forest green on the other. The pink and green hearts are held together with bows, while a break down the centre of each is secured with corset lacing and harness straps. Titled, optimistically, Open Your Heart Because Everything Will Change (2023) it carries fetishistic frisson – the shape of love, dressed in the visual language of sex.
