Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents Point of Return, the first solo exhibition in an Italian institution by Joseph Yaeger (1986, Helena, Montana, USA). The exhibition offers a broad view of Yaeger's work, through a set of works, including some newly produced ones, that convey the depth of a research practice begun several years ago. In his practice, the artist draws inspiration from film, documentary or found video frames to build compositions that are at once familiar and disturbing. The selected frames never depict iconic scenes or immediately identifiable moments; yet they resonate in memory as something already seen, even though the memory cannot be placed precisely. Indeed, after being cut and altered, the images remain suspended between recognition and disorientation, and generate in the viewer a sensation on the edge of unease, discomfort and worry.
Point of Return takes its title from a 2021 painting, in which Yaeger reverses the expression "punto di non ritorno" ("point of no return").