Joseph Yaeger
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 imagery I use is a protracted search to better understand myself; playing or putting on roles that might clarify an interior that is sort of naturally hidden, even from myself. I’ll come across an image––sometimes I’m searching for one, sometimes I stumble into it––and the feeling of it, the arrangement, the subject, the relation of subjects within the image, will sort of jar me, attract me, dislodge me.”
The images appear at first glance immediately recognisable and equally untraceable, an uncanny déjà vu.
Following the PNI Online presentation, The Writer, Yaeger’s first solo exhibition at Project Native Informant, Doublespeak, 2021, took glass as a guiding visual metaphor for the distorting qualities of language. Yaeger will present his second solo gallery exhibition in 2023.

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Time Weft, 2023
The Perimeter, London

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Time Weft, 2023
The Perimeter, London

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Time Weft, 2023
The Perimeter, London

Joseph Yaeger
Freedom from want
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
140 x 105 x 4 cm
55 1/8 x 41 3/8 x 1 5/8 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Time Weft, 2023
The Perimeter, London

Joseph Yaeger
The Subject
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
180 x 150 x 4 cm
70 7/8 x 59 x 1 5/8 in

Joseph Yaeger
Detail: The Subject
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
180 x 150 x 4 cm
70 7/8 x 59 x 1 5/8 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Time Weft, 2023
The Perimeter, London

Joseph Yaeger
Knowing is a weak state
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
150 x 110 x 4 cm
59 1/8 x 43 1/4 x 1 5/8 in

Joseph Yaeger
Detail: Knowing is a weak state
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
150 x 110 x 4 cm
59 1/8 x 43 1/4 x 1 5/8 in

Joseph Yaeger
Yield to overcome
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
110 x 150 x 4 cm
43 1/4 x 59 x 1 5/8 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Just a second, 2022
Antenna Space, Shanghai

Joseph Yaeger
Even what is is not
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
26 x 46 x 2 cm
10 1/4 x 18 1/8 x 3/4 in

Joseph Yaeger
The best way of living well is getting revenge
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
26 x 46 x 2 cm
10 1/4 x 18 1/8 x 3/4 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Just a second, 2022
Antenna Space, Shanghai

Joseph Yaeger
Charity begins as harm
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
26 x 46 x 2 cm
10 1/4 x 18 1/8 x 3/4 in

Joseph Yaeger
Exhuming the hatchet
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
26 x 46 x 2 cm
10 1/4 x 18 1/8 x 3/4 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Sweet Days of Discipline, 2022
Hannah Hoffmann Gallery, Los Angeles

Joseph Yaeger
Cupid with a machete
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
44 x 36 x 2 cm
17 3/8 x 14 1/8 x 3/4 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
A Mimetic Theory of Desire
David Lewis, New York

Joseph Yaeger
There is a light and it always goes out
2022
Watercolour on gessoed canvas
140 x 106 x 4 cm
55 1/8 x 41 3/4 x 1 5/8 in

Joseph Yaeger
Phantom hymn
2022
Watercolour on gessoed linen
140 x 106 x 4 cm
55 1/8 x 41 3/4 x 1 5/8 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Art Basel Miami Beach: Positions, 2021
Miami

Joseph Yaeger
Personal inspection at zero altitude
2021
Watercolour on gessoed canvas
51 x 66 x 2 cm
20 1/8 x 26 x 3/4 in

Joseph Yaeger
Sly transference
2021
Watercolour on gessoed canvas
51 x 66 x 2 cm
20 1/8 x 26 x 3/4 in

Joseph Yaeger
The unseen comprises the seen
2021
Watercolour on gessoed linen
160 x 180 x 4 cm
63 x 70 7/8 x 1 5/8 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Doublespeak, 2021
Project Native Informant, London

Joseph Yaeger
Point of return
2021
Watercolour on gessoed canvas
66.5 x 51.5 x 4 cm
26 1/8 x 20 1/4 x 1 5/8 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Doublespeak, 2021
Project Native Informant, London

Joseph Yaeger
Only the dead are eloquent
2021
Watercolour on gessoed canvas
150.5 x 120 x 4 cm
59 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 1 5/8 in

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Doublespeak, 2021
Project Native Informant, London

Installation View
Joseph Yaeger
Doublespeak, 2021
Project Native Informant, London

Joseph Yaeger
The Vessel
2020
Watercolour on gessoed canvas
66 x 51 x 4 cm
26 x 20 1/8 x 1 5/8 in

Joseph Yaeger
Dress Rehearsal
2020
Watercolour on gessoed canvas
51 x 35.5 x 2 cm
20 1/8 x 14 x 3/4 in

Joseph Yaeger
Programming Causes Audience
2020
Watercolour on gessoed canvas
180 x 210 x 4 cm
70 7/8 x 82 5/8 x 1 5/8 in
Solo Exhibitions
Group Shows
Dozie Kanu, Joseph Yaeger, Kenneth Bergfeld
Frieze LA 2022
Frieze LA, Los Angeles

Anna Jung Seo, Joseph Yaeger, Kenneth Bergfeld
Frieze Seoul 2023
Frieze Seoul, Seoul

Clémentine Bruno, Dozie Kanu, Joseph Yaeger
Art Basel Miami Beach 2020
Art Basel, Miami Beach

Anna Jung Seo, DIS, Clémentine Bruno, Joseph Yaeger, ...
Frieze LA 2023
Frieze, Los Angeles

DIS, Joseph Yaeger, Juliana Huxtable, Michael Andrew Page, ...
Frieze London 2022
Frieze, London
