Anatomy of Autonomy unfolds as a two-part body of work composed of four large-scale hand-tufted wool carpets and a 16:9 video projection sequencing thirty-five black-and-white digital drawings.
The project originates from a critical reflection on the contemporary military–financial–colonial complex shaping the current geopolitical order — marked by the rise of competing imperial blocs, authoritarian governments, and the erosion of international law. Within this landscape of repression and systemic violence, the work asks: what role can art and culture meaningfully play? Rather than positioning art as commentary or symbolic resistance, Anatomy of Autonomy proposes an infrastructural response. The carpets translate abstract political diagrams into tactile, spatial forms, grounding systemic critique in material presence. The projected drawings operate as a visual essay — mapping power structures, fractures, and potential sites of convergence among international movements of struggle.The project argues that autonomy cannot be merely aesthetic or rhetorical; it must be structural. Art must move toward building autonomous infrastructures capable of freeing cultural production from censorship, repression, and the extractive logic of the donor economy. In this vision, artistic practice becomes a site for experimenting with alternative models of governance and redistribution — constructing economic and organizational systems that sustain socially and politically engaged artists beyond dependency on institutional patronage. Through material labor (tufting, weaving) and digital diagrammatic narration, Anatomy of Autonomy articulates autonomy not as isolation, but as collective construction — a proposal for infrastructural emancipation within and beyond the art system.