Ernst Yohji Jaeger's 'Calamondin' at Crèvecœur, Paris

Ernst Yohji Jaeger's solo exhibition 'Calamondin' is on view at Crèvecœur in Paris from June 11 to July 25, 2026. The show explores the tension between image production and the durational process of painting, featuring works such as 'A Dream as Deep as the Ocean' (2026, oil on canvas, 140 × 170 cm), 'Run With the Dogs' (2026, oil on canvas, 30.5 × 75 cm), 'Full Moon' (2026, oil on canvas, 80 × 100 cm), 'Sleeping Sculptor or Empty Vase With Flowers', 'The Serpent's Gift', and 'We Step Into the Vanishing Light'. Jaeger's practice is situated within a lineage of painters including Philip Guston, Gerhard Richter, and Anselm Kiefer, who interrogated the relationship between image, matter, and memory. The artist often begins paintings with a red ochre ground, referencing Titian and Velázquez, and the surfaces retain traces of multiple revisions. Mythic figures such as the whale, serpent, and phoenix appear as archetypal structures linking individual and collective memory. The exhibition's title derives from a calamondin plant that nearly died during a difficult period for the artist but slowly revived, introducing an organic temporality. Jaeger's work responds to the contemporary condition of instant image generation, asserting that an image gains intensity when it preserves the friction of its formation. The show includes a dream narrative in which the artist sees his name engraved on a mirror, only to have it erased, prompting the question 'Who are you?'.