Uniforms:

Uniforms, made from fragments of uniforms, installation shot Kwandu Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan, 2005.

After Wars, Crisis and Disasters - disguise and identity in Asia-Pacific Culture

"... The Australian artist Zanny Begg's work explores the cultural camouflage between war, housework, feminine and masculine codes, fragments and totality. Her work consists of a collage of 726 fabrics cut out from various types of uniform. The rigid and confining relation between individuals and the social collective is brilliantly laid bare by the material and color of each fabric as well as the information visually received by the audience while changing her distance from the work. With the working of social mechanisms, individuality has been engulfed by the colorful mask of collective imaginaries. Despite individual differences, every stage of a person's life - from birth, education, work, marriage to death - is conditioned by collective camouflage."

Dr Hsiu-Ling Kuo, curator, (Un)Masking: The Art of Disguise/Disclosure in Asia Pacific Cultures.