Call it narcissicism, but Agus Suwage has done a lot of self-portraitures or self-representations from the mid-1990s using his own face and body, partly because of convenience and monetary issue. Besides the obvious investigation into self, it is also a kind of self-therapy and a self-parody, and a projection of a larger more universal outreach. It all started from a photographer housemate using him as a ‘free’ model for experiments. Apart from the self, Agus also uses his works to probe questions about society, culture, religion, death and Man’s relationship with animals. Here, with the outline of his head against long scribblings are shown a raft of books which might or might not related to the meaning envisaged. Books like Anselm Kiefer and Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Agus Suwage graduated in Graphic Design from the Bandung Institute of Technology in 1986 but switched to fine art using popular symbols and iconography in his paintings, sculptures and installations after a stint as a graphic designer. When he turned 50 in 2009, he had a major retrospective featuring 99 works from 1985-2009 called Still Crazy After All These Years at the Jogjakarta National Museum. In 2007, he had a solo, Playing The Fool, at the Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, and Room Of Mine, at the Tyler Rollins FA in New York. Apart from residences, he had also taken part in Art Basel HK (2014), the Singapore Biennale (2006), the Gwangju Biennale (2000) and the Havana Biennale (1997).