I'm
Increasingly
Pessoptimistic

About

Junshu Gu (kuulikki)  is a London-based artist, writer, and flâneur. Intertwining discourses around anxiety, escapism, and post-truth, her work is rooted in rhizome theory and draws from her many years of interdisciplinary culture-related work experience. 

Borrowing from the vocabulary of New Wave films, the antinovel, and music, Junshu's concerns repeatedly revolve around questions of pessoptimism and the hidden initiative behind escapism. Her practice incorporates sculpture, print, sound and moving image, and appears minimal and abstract, formally lithesome and precise. Junshu strives to address the allegorical narrative potential that arises from the edge of chaos in the real world, aiming to examine and expose the absence of the female flâneur (flâneuse) in contemporary discourse. She creates a sense of off-kilter rhythm, where solid and amorphous energy collide.