Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: A Future in the Light of Darkness review – a cosmic odyssey through feminism, botany and frisson

New beginnings, of a kind … 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. Photograph: courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin and Bortolami, New York

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.