A Planet for Abu is a hand-knotted garden-cosmos, the result of a conversation between Patricia Domínguez and Abhinav Sethi, a weaver from Jaipur, Rajasthan, whose family has been crafting handmade rugs entirely by hand for generations, from dyeing the yarns to the final knot.

Abhinav proposed to Patricia that she design a carpet based on her own universe, and together they translated that imagery—duck-billed platypuses, black holes, portals, shamanic presences—into the twelve-by-twelve grids that structure traditional weaving. During the process, Patricia discovered Mughal hunting rugs in the workshop—a tradition in which animals appear mounted and subjugated in the service of the hunt. That encounter changed the course of the work: the Mughal animals abandoned their riders and their function, and entered freely into the cosmos that Patricia and Abhinav were weaving.

They were joined by the beings that have accompanied Patricia’s life and work: the blind toucan from Madre Drone, her one-eyed dog, her horses, as well as the fictional creatures from previous pieces and other fantastic animals from her personal bestiary. All coexist without hierarchies, without relationships of domination, in an interspecies space where plants, animals, and machines are on the same level.

A Planet for Abu is an interactive piece: it invites visitors to lie down on the carpet and experience a story told not through words, but through touch, sight, and the body. The sculpture floating above acts as the shaman guiding this dream—a presence that does not impose but rather accompanies, opening up the space for different and unexpected narratives to emerge with each visit.