Robe à l’anglaise

Robe à l’anglaise (2022)

Robe à l’anglaise (2022) is an ongoing series that conveys Kleine’s experience as a mestizo – a person of ‘mixed’ Filipino descent. This involves depictions of Kleine dressed in a robe à l’anglaise – a dress once favoured by colonists in the 18^th century. In this way, Kleine speaks to the visceral experience of ‘mixed race’ people in systems that rely on divisive notions of identity, such as race. Nonetheless, the diversity of settings and roles that Kleine adopts suggests the formation of new identities that are not confined by colonial frameworks.