Exhibitions & Concerts

Like the Summer Animals
Taking a picture of a tree last summer, I was moved to find how sunlight passing through its leaves can break into a spectrum of colours when caught by a phone camera. Produced through the interaction between light, lens, and sensor, this optical glitch reveals a scene otherwise invisible to the naked eye.

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

Learning 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 relation between two points, transforming cosmic trajectories into spectral images close to home. Yet the camera is a wayward companion, and sometimes this relation sprawls into colour, for better or worse.

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

Alongside the installation, a small publication assembles 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. Meditating on what is at stake within a drastically changing world, she engages her work to process meaning, relation, and belonging. Merging intuitive image-making with theoretical inquiry, Tröscher draws on ecological and feminist theory while interlacing 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 sensorial awareness, positioning empathy as a mode 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 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 2020-2023, she worked as an assistant to Laure Prouvost and Stef Van Looveren.