Julia Zöhrer: Textile Images Between Myth and Presence

Between Memory, Ritual, and Non-Linear Time

Julia Zöhrer – Textile Drawing & Installation

Julia Zöhrer lives and works in Linz. Her practice unfolds between textile, drawing, and installation, often extending into natural or rural contexts. Rather than treating textiles as surfaces, she approaches them as structures of thought, layered, fragile, and charged with memory. Her works appear suspended, hung from trees, beams, or temporary architectures, positioned between shelter and exposure.

“What emerges is not a story but a field of relations, where myth, remembrance, and speculation coexist.”

Zöhrer works with fabric and paper as carriers of symbolic imagery. Figures, animals, and hybrid beings populate her compositions, arranged in distorted groupings within reduced landscapes.

These scenes do not narrate events but stage situations. The imagery feels ritualistic and slightly grotesque, resisting linear reading. What emerges is not a story but a field of relations, where myth, remembrance, and speculation coexist. Titles function as subtle cues rather than explanations, opening possible readings without fixing meaning.

Installed outdoors or within architectural remnants, the works enter into dialogue with their surroundings. Wind, gravity, and light become active elements, reinforcing the sense of a reality that is provisional and layered. Zöhrer’s practice does not aim for resolution. It invites presence, asking viewers to inhabit a space where time, memory, and symbol remain deliberately unsettled.

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Current Exhibition:

Veronika Günther with Popular Problems - The Tiger Room, MunichRuo-Hsin Wu paints faceless figures suspended in pitch-black voids. Taiwan-based, technically luminous, emotionally weightless.