The Mexican artist Frieda Toranzo Jaeger (1988) presents Visioni at the Fondazione Sandra e Giancarlo Bonollo per l’arte contemporanea in Thiene, a collection of works representative of her research into the influence of religious models and ideological systems on contemporary existence.

The first two rooms of the Foundation host a series of large three-dimensional paintings by Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, whose forms are inspired by portable altarpieces—objects of Catholic devotion that are here stripped of their original function and transformed into devices of re-imagination. The artist directly engages with the chapel of the former Chiesa delle Dimesse as an architecture of power that, for centuries, helped sustain a specific worldview.

Explains the curator Elisa Carollo: “Drawing on worldviews in which genders, animals, tools, sexuality, kinship, plants, sound, and climate coexist within a continuous web of relationships, her works take shape as counter-cosmologies: erotic, mechanical, and esoteric imaginaries that reject transcendence in favor of immanence, envisioning fluid interdependencies between biology and machine, spirit and matter.”