Launch: Saturday 2nd May – 1pm

Dates: 2nd May – 20th January 2026

Gallery: Lower Gallery

Golden Thread Gallery is presenting a new body of work by French artist Frédéric Huska, who is based in Northern Ireland. Working across photography, writing and film, Huska explores the relationship between personal experience, history and landscape. This new exhibition features a series of black and white analogue photographs of Taiwan’s coastline, seen as places shaped by political tension and uncertainty.

The project focuses on fourteen beaches identified as possible landing sites in the event of invasion. Starting at the sea and moving inland toward the mountains, the photographs follow the shape of the land. The images hold a quiet tension, moving between distance and closeness, presence and absence.

The photographs suggest futures that may never happen, yet still influence how we see the present. Using analogue photography, Huska reflects on time, memory and how images carry traces of both past and future.

The work creates space for uncertainty. The landscapes feel both powerful and hard to define, shaped by global politics but open to different interpretations. The exhibition invites viewers to slow down and consider how we imagine what lies ahead.

The project began during an important moment in the artist’s life, marked by the death of his father and the birth of his daughter. This experience of loss and new life deepened his interest in questions about the future, vulnerability and hope.

Traces of a Traumatic Future continues the artist’s sustained inquiry into the unstable ground between visibility and invisibility, past and future, and the political and the intimate.

About the Artist

Frédéric Huska was awarded a three year residency at Fire Station Artists’ Studios in 2018. His work has been presented internationally, including a solo exhibition at The MAC, collaborative projects at PLACE and QSS Gallery, and a solo exhibition at Belfast Exposed. He has participated in group exhibitions including MAC International 2016, presentations at Ku Art Center, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, and the National Portrait Gallery. He currently lectures at Ulster University and has led photography and reflective writing workshops at The Metropolitan Arts Centre as part of the Curatorial Directions Programme.

Accessibility 

The Lower Gallery is accessed via the ground floor, which is step-free.

Large print versions of exhibition texts are available.

Access videos of the gallery are available on our website here, with BSL and ISL signed versions.

Please let us know if you have any questions or additional requirements, we are working hard to make the gallery as accessible as possible for everyone.

Golden Thread Gallery is proud to hold an Arts & Disability Access Award 2025 Venue Accreditation. 

Golden Thread Gallery is supported by: