rippling through

Duo exhibition with Julia Tröscher, curated by Camille Van Meenen and assistant curator Charlotte Frenay

What is suppressed slips into the crevices.
What slips must be brought to the surface.
What doesn’t fear the surface speaks loudly.

rippling through seeks the porous boundaries between our inner and outer ontology, approaching modes of imaging and imagining as active tools for accessing deeper layers of our emotional landscape. Through their video and installation practices, Gucheva and Tröscher engage in a meditative methodology, bringing about a potentially healing process by tapping into suppressed emotions and memories. Taking the intimate and the personal as a starting point, the exhibition simultaneously questions how internal messages resonate within a wider collective consciousness.

Fueling the thinking-feeling process for this exhibition is the notion of autotheory, which explores the entanglement of subjectivity and criticality. Developing new works both together and in parallel, Gucheva and Tröscher experiment with autotheory in their own distinct yet interconnected ways.

Presenting an immersive installation with video and sensory elements at its core, the artists create a space for rippling through that invites the audience to enter into their emotional realms and experience relationality as something felt rather than explained. How can the personal and universal come together? What can sensibility reveal that language alone cannot?

    ~ Text by Camille Van Meenen


Photography credits go to Jan Steiger