Alex Snowden understands identity as a skin which, like the snake's, mutates and decays. By juxtaposing repetitive patterns, unstable materials, and folkloristic clichés, Snowden explores the meaning of belonging not only in relation to narratives of nationality, but also with respect to memory. Investigating how political rhetoric and one's recollections do not mirror but rather construct an incoherent picture of identity, Snowden concretizes in her work the absurdity of defining people in definitive terms.