Artist: Joseph Yaeger
Exhibition title: Just A Second
Venue: Antenna-tenna, Shanghai, China
Date: July 16 – August 30, 2022
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Antenna Space, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger (b. 1986) currently lives and works in London. He received his BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and his MFA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2019.
An artist attuned to the vagaries of contemporary cultural memory, Joseph Yaeger’s practice can be thought of as a parallel investigation in the fetishisation of images in contemporary libidinal economies, and in painting’s contemporaneous agency in the transformation and circulation of the visible. The images in Yaeger’s works appear at first glance immediately recognisable and equally untraceable, an uncanny déjà vu.
Yaeger’s works has been featured in numerous key galleries, art fairs and academic institutions, such as Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (Solo, 2022); Frieze Los Angeles, US (2022); Art Basel Miami Beach, US (Solo, 2021; Group, 2020); Project Native Informant, London, UK (Solo, 2021, 2020; Group, 2020); VO Curations, London, UK (Solo, 2020); David Lewis, New York, US (2022); The Perimeter, London, UK (2022); Mamoth Contemporary, London, UK (2020); Royal College of Art, London, UK (2019); Hockney Gallery, London, UK (2018) among others.
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Just A Second, 2022, exhibition view, Antenna-tenna, Shanghai
Joseph Yaeger, Before is a future, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Days stacked against who we think we are, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Ghost without saying, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Prayer is a deep-reading of nothing, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, It is always years later, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, The best way of living well is getting revenge, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Exhuming the hatchet, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Another solved game, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Charity begins as harm, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, At the bottom of the well, agency, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, The world of ought is coded, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, No epiphanies, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, History is its own denial, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Energy is its own depletion, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Even what is is not, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Even what is not is, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Public solitude, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Blunt instruments still cut, 2022 Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Wilderness is not a place, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, From not of, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, Solved game, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, We are created by being destroyed, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, As I die laying, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm
Joseph Yaeger, 2023, 2022, Watercolour on gessoed linen, 26 x 46 x 2 cm