Cosmic Girlboss

Emily Hunt offers talismans for navigating neoliberal systems, as well as allowing the GIRLBOSS to truly touch the great mystery of the cosmos.


The artist duo DLBLR subvert and reclaim the cultural appropriation and commodification of spiritual practices in pop culture. Salesforce Child crafts a new religion out of the horrors of the smartphone screen and the naked, frenzied worship of pure capital it enables.

Margarita Athanasiou gives a fantastical, historical perspective on the relationship between fascism, the occult, and the Internet.


The COSMIC GIRLBOSS’ spiritual entrepreneurialism is especially well-suited to digital platform economies such as TikTok and Instagram. For-pay Tarot readings and algorithmically determined astrological horoscopes abound, often marketed to women and queer people..

The term ‘GIRLBOSS’ is itself a sexist product of the 2010s Internet, describing female entrepreneurs who cloaked their hypercapitalist ambitions in a sheen of peppy feminism. The archetypical GIRLBOSS does not need to be a woman, and she is very rarely actually a boss, but her endless quest for money is defined by a gendered financial precarity.

This exhibition acknowledges the power of the COSMIC GIRLBOSS, and how her spiritual strategies help cope with the volatility of our crumbling economic systems, while also gently insisting that there must be more to contemporary spiritual life.


"Here in the heart of capitalist Western Europe, we are taught to achieve fulfillment through our financial potential: that a dream job and a nest egg will set us free. As the political and economic insecurity that we have historically exported to the Global South and East comes knocking on our door, this doctrine of individual optimisation starts to unravel."

Enter the COSMIC GIRLBOSS. She sees systemic crises as spiritual challenges from the universe, asking her to simply manifest material security harder. When she is let go from her job, rather than, say, unionising, she charges her crystals and asks her Tarot deck to point her in the right direction. She is an entrepreneur of the divine.