Marcos Kueh is a textile artist who has a background in graphic design and advertising. Growing up in a post-colonial developing country, he has always been fascinated about his Malaysian identity and his place in Western discourses. Through his practice, he protects contemporary legends by incorporating them into textiles, using fibres to string together bits of day-to-day narratives that he encounters – just as his ancestors from Borneo did with their dreams and legends, before the arrival of written alphabets from the West. In many of his artistic research projects, he explores the spectacle of how his country is perceived, from colonial descriptions in anthropological museums around the world to marketing texts in tourism advertisements, comparing these representations with his lived experiences as a human from a small town in Borneo, navigating through mundane expectations to progress as a modern citizen in a gradual, uniform and globalised world.