The phrase "is foregrounded" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that has been given particular attention or emphasis. For example, "Equality is foregrounded in the company's mission statement and values."
The author's struggle to write the novel is foregrounded in the text.
British speakers plump for scrap paper -- or if the activity of quick note-taking is foregrounded, scribbling paper.
The motif of failing eyesight is foregrounded, with Gregers's father and Hjalmar's daughter, Hedvig, each suffering from the same form of macular degeneration.
I'm exaggerating, of course, but the trouble is, that's the impact it has when a woman's family situation is foregrounded in an article about her career.
Though the action is foregrounded and there's virtually no backstory, there's also virtually no psychology — Lowery's script doesn't nail his characters to a bulletin board and explain their actions with reference to simplistically determined causes.
The movie is foregrounded, with surprisingly little of the past emerging in specific relation to the drama, but that past is ever-present, like an invisible weight for all concerned.
Their heroism and selflessness are foregrounded.
Thinking about money used to be in the background, and now it's foregrounded.
12.23pm: Daddy issues being foregrounded with some slightly clunky exposition dialogue.
It is a fairground ride of a movie in which character and narrative development gradually recede as thrills are foregrounded.
Relieved of the burden of faux suspense, ideas kept at the fringe by passing ephemera are foregrounded, themes blossom.
