Frieda Toranzo Jaeger Discusses Art as Resistance in Current Exhibition

Mexican artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger is currently featured in the exhibition 'Visioni' at Fondazione Bonollo in Thiene, curated by Elisa Carollo. In an interview, Toranzo Jaeger discusses her distinctive practice that combines painting and embroidery to examine ideological systems, including religious, colonial, and economic structures. She reflects on influences from Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and views embroidery not as opposition to technology but as a form of technology itself that carries collective memory predating capitalism and colonization. The artist also addresses her 2024 Venice Biennale installation in the Arsenale's Corderie, noting the colonial history of such spaces and expressing skepticism about the upcoming 2026 Biennale amid what she sees as an identity crisis in the art world and institutional censorship.