Ilona Langbroek’s personal series Silent Loss is based on her family’s history in the former Dutch East Indies. The Netherlands has a long history with the Dutch East Indies, which leave all kinds of traces that are reminiscent of the vast but also complex colonial past between the Netherlands and what is now Indonesia. In fact, her work is about the lost identity of the large number of people who were forced to leave their homes after the Independence, and their emotions regarding this loss which are dormant but still very much alive.