An exhibition titled Constellation of Complicity: Visualising the Global Machinery of Authoritarian Solidarity—featuring artists from Hong Kong, Tibet, and the Uyghur diaspora—was altered just days after opening at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre. Under direct pressure conveyed by the Chinese Embassy, the gallery blacked out names, flags, and artworks, including pieces addressing genocide and the sweeping treatment of dissidents.
Curator Sai, co-founder of the Myanmar Peace Museum, called it a stark irony: a show on authoritarian collaboration being censored by authoritarian tactics.
China’s Foreign Ministry later fired back, accusing the exhibit of distorting its policies on Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong, and dismissed the presentation of separatist themes as politically charged fabrications.
