Pillow

«I like to work with ancestral techniques. Undress the past to dress the present…». Valerie Barkowski travels and lives around the world since graduating from St. Lucas Art School in Gent, Belgium. Brussels, Paris, Moscow, New York, Marrakech, Jaipur and the desert. Her knowledge of the world, the different cultures and their richness feed her creativity and inspiration. In 2008 she meets Sunita Namjoshi in Mumbai, creating and developing the concept Bandit Queen.

Bandit Queen could be 20 or a 1000 She lives in each of us and belongs to all of us Legends and stories that tell of her lives and adventures are many. A mystery, she is never where you expect her to be. She seems to have her ear to the ground and can foresee the future. She is never afraid ; even in the face of troubling trespasses. She is nobody’s fool, part of no clique, but connected to all and that is her strength. She has allies amongst the intellectuals and also distant travellers. She has enemies too. What drives the Bandit Queen? Defending the freedom to think, to act, to love, to go overboard when she wants and with whom she wants.