Through my work, I try to reject the question of origin and actually deconstruct identities by producing renewable identities, seeing identity as a transient invention.

We wear a second skin every day that indicates, for instance, our membership of specific groups in our cultural, social and religious surroundings. Wearing a veil, covering the body and face, on one hand can be seen as a dress code that signifies the group to which we belong. On the other hand, it conceals identity much in the way camouflage does. In both cases, it is about giving up individuality and personal identity for the sake of becoming unapproachable and untouchable – the person’s identity becomes totally blurred.

In “The Follower” I sewed the badges of all manner of organisations together that I collected in Yogyakarta; from religious groups, political parties, schools, separatists groups, to sport clubs, etc.