Main Exhibition

Constellation of Complicity: Visualising the Global Machinery of Authoritarian Solidarity

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Organised by Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration
Project Supporter: Emergent Art Space (EAS) and JINA Alliance
Curated by Myanmar Peace Museum

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Artists
Clara Cheung & Gum Cheng Yee Man
Karla Mohtashemi 
Khaled Dawwa
Mukaddas Mijit
SACCA
Sai ▇▇▇
Shahrzad Orang 
Taisiya Krugovykh & Vasily Bogatov 
Tenzin Mingyur Paldron 
Toomaj Salehi

Constellation of Complicity: Visualising the Global Machinery of Authoritarian Solidarity

What binds regimes across geographies today is not ideology alone, but infrastructure — of arms, surveillance, trade, and silence. Constellation of Complicity interrogates these formal and informal alignments between authoritarian states through the lens of artists who have lived through — or in exile from — their consequences.

This exhibition brings together works from Myanmar, Iran, Russia, Syria, Hong Kong, Tibet, and the Uyghur diaspora — regions too often framed as isolated crises. Yet through these practices, we witness a re-mapping: a shared grammar of power made visible through diplomacy, economic exchange, and militarised suppression. These regimes collaborate, affirm one another, and reproduce forms of violence under the guise of sovereignty and order.

Rather than illustrating trauma, the exhibition offers a counter-cartography: tracing how state violence mutates, circulates, and replicates — and how acts of resistance reverberate across borders. The title, Constellation of Complicity, signals this dual gesture: the exposure of interconnected regimes and the imagining of new forms of cross-border solidarity. Here, aesthetics operate not as metaphor, but as method — evidentiary, ritual, forensic, and speculative.

The word “constellation” implies a way of seeing: connecting disparate points into meaning. In this context, it reminds us that authoritarianism is never isolated. Nor is resistance. These works speak across differences — polyphonic, regionally rooted, and globally entangled.

From lullabies restructured from arms treaties to rituals of prostration and paper-based sabotage of surveillance systems, these pieces form an archive of strategic refusal. They do not tell a singular story. Instead, they hold space for multiple, intersecting forms of grief, endurance, and revolt.

To map complicity is to name the actors who sustain oppression — not only through violence, but through exchange. To exhibit it is to disrupt its invisibility.Constellation of Complicity does not claim a universal truth. It proposes a curatorial method: to constellate rather than isolate, to reveal power in its entanglements, and to insist that art remains one of the last ungovernable territories of resistance.

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