Exhibitions & Concerts

Like the Summer Animals
Whilst taking a photograph of a tree last summer, I was struck by how sunlight filtering through its leaves can break into a spectrum of colours when captured by a mobile phone camera. Created through the interaction between light, the lens and the sensor, this optical glitch reveals a scene that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye.

In a multi-screen installation, this phenomenon serves as the starting point for exploring how technological perception sometimes fails to capture what we see, and how that might reveal a beauty that would otherwise be impossible to perceive.

Drawing inspiration from the tree, the work places it at the centre of the installation. Like light breaking through its leaves, images spectralise around it across multiple screens, tracing the journey of light with varying degrees of success. Each image reflects a relationship between two points, transforming cosmic trajectories into spectral images close to home. Yet the camera is a wayward companion, and sometimes this relationship spills over into colour, for better or worse.

Rather than presenting a single narrative, the installation brings together fragments of observation, thought and image into a constellation that uses the domestic space of the exhibition to open gleaming windows, dissolving the boundaries between inside and outside, far and near.

Alongside the installation, a small publication brings together texts that inform the work’s conceptual framework, extending this constellation beyond the images themselves.

Julia Tröscher (b. 1997, Vienna) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores how art can transform contemporary existence. Reflecting on what is at stake in a rapidly changing world, she uses her work to explore meaning, relationships and belonging. Blending intuitive image-making with theoretical inquiry, Tröscher draws on ecological and feminist theory whilst interweaving fragments of personal memory with collective experience.

Through moving image, text and installation, her works unfold as tactile spaces where matter and language resonate, countering the techno-scientific gaze with an embodied way of seeing. Within layered environments, she creates conditions for relational understanding and sensory awareness, positioning empathy as a means of reimagining how we inhabit the world.

Tröscher lives and works in Antwerp. She holds a BA with First Class Honours in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2021) and an MA in Visual Art from Sint Lucas Antwerpen (2024). Upcoming exhibitions are at Komplot and Atelier Arthur Rogiers in Brussels, 2026. Recent exhibitions include *Head-Thrust-and-Hold* at Studio FAAR, Antwerp; *Antwerp Art Weekend*, M HKA (2025); ‘Transformatie’, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (2024) and ‘Unextractable: Sammy Baloji Invites’, Kunsthalle Mainz (2023–24). She is currently part of the Tasting Tendrils Residency Programme at the Royal Academy, Antwerp, and has completed residencies with CIMA, HR (2025); NAHR, IT (2022) and the Bosacademie, BE (2022). She received the Antwerp Art Graduation Prize in 2024 and was shortlisted for the LVMH Maison/0 This Earth Award in 2021. Between 2020 and 2023, she worked as an assistant to Laure Prouvost and Stef Van Looveren.