Multimedia artist Jialin Wu constructs installations that evoke speculative, fragmented worlds for reflecting upon the instability of that means, and an inevitable means of mutation in our modern digital age. Her worlds present conjecture, the place that means is frequently in flux. Wu adeptly makes house for the potential of reassembling the ‘forgotten fragments of hope, even inside a fractured current.’
Along with her current digital video work, An Nearly-World (2025), the London based mostly artist explores the idea of utopia, impressed by Fredric Jameson’s Utopia as Technique. She expresses these concepts sensitively by way of an immersive sensory setting the place the viewer’s vantage level is from among the many many animated floating objects drifting by way of a futuristic cityscape. They transfer at a rhythmic tempo that’s neither berserk nor static, however confidently embraces a state of continuous flux.
All through, a narrator’s voice encourages us to think about a world ‘flickering, not but absolutely fashioned, not but forgotten; and to conjure an area the place failure is allowed to drift, the place hope doesn’t demand a form’. All this finally encourages us to participate in a ‘softness in pondering’ about ‘not what needs to be, however what would possibly nonetheless turn out to be.’ This very quick video piece symbolically serves as a threshold. It’s an invite to think about potentialities past ideological buildings of perfection and linear, goal-oriented pondering towards a specific utopian world. It strongly proposes the potential of utopian thought as a continuous course of, and perpetual transformation.
Wu’s work of transmedia storytelling is a part of “ENTRE LES MONDES：POÉTIQUES DU FRAGILE ET DE L’INVISIBL”(BETWEEN WORLDS: POETICS OF THE FRAGILE AND THE INVISIBLE), an exhibition curated by Fang Liu (Summer season) for LooLooLook gallery in Paris. An Nearly-World is nicely positioned inside the exhibition’s tenets of quiet remark and fragility as a type of resistance, and amongst a constellation of significant artists whose works construct bridges between the ‘archaic and the speculative, and the ancestral recollections and technological futures.’
