Habeas Corpus investigates speculative futures rooted in ancestral intelligence, positioning the ancient writ “you have the body” as scaffold and allegory for resistance and release. The installation unfolds as a charged white space, imagined as both sanctuary and cell, where padded and woven walls form anechoic membranes, and storied stones invest columns with civic legacies. Centred, a Carrara column etched with a gilded barcode activates a golden digital “chip” — an AI-AR offspring carved from a codified rare ancient wood. Across this environment, real and virtual bodies oscillate between totem and text, spirit and human, object and code; binding viewer and spectacle. Blending primordial matter, minimalism, and machine learning, thresholds surface where sensory and digital dimensions entangle, channelling emotion, memory, and biospheric systems into rituals of confinement and liberty.
