She has been active in installation-based practice, performance and video-performance, and has presented her work in Australia, Indonesia, Finland, Lithuania and more recently Malaysia. In Malaysia her work has been presented in a number of group shows while her most recent activities include 'Kedai Kebaya' – a video performance installation at Art Space Gallery in Kuala Lumpur (2005), and its follow-up, 'Kebaya and her Cousins' at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang (2006).

Three of her works will be screened at Help:

1. ReenActing Rima (Indonesia 2005)

"ReenActing Rima" interweaves two stories by Rima, a young Balinese (and Indonesian) woman. Rima, the protagonist, 'narrator' and 'actor' of the video, gives us two personal experiences from her recent past, both related to her veil or tudung as it's known in Malaysia. Finding herself both confronted and confounded by the different readings and understanding of her clothing by Muslim and non-Muslim alike, she may well ask whose veil it is anyway.

2. Garlic Red Onion (Malaysia 2006)

Victoria Cattoni collaborated with fellow artist Masnoor Ramli Mahmud on this short video, as part of her Asialink residency in Kuala Lumpur. On the surface this video celebrates the ritual and people attached to the preparation of the red and white garlic, but beneath that, the video pays subtle homage to a classic Malay film of the 1950s, 'Bawang Putih, Bawang Merah'. These two vegetables have played a role in Malay metaphoric understandings of female moral values and standards and are often used as symbols of the binary gendered analogy of racun dan penawar (poison and antidote).

Red is also symbolic of courage, while white has connotations of death. The work captures with a deft understanding of layered myths that speaks to the cultural legacies of the Malay world, and subtextually, to the rich heritage of early Malay cinema.

3. Kebaya and her Cousins (Malaysia 2006) This is the latest version of an ongoing research project that began in Indonesia in 2002. The project itself was discussed earlier this year at ATMA & IKON, University Kebangsaan Malaysia in Reading the Kebaya:From Discourse to Vernacular, and segments of earlier video works from the project were shown at Galeri Petronas in 2005.

This new finished work, "Kebaya and her Cousins" is the outcome of workshops held in KL in December 2005 and was exhibited at Universiti Sains Malaysia in January this year. This will be its first public presentation in Kuala Lumpur.