Mayunkiki’s practice arises from her identity as an Ainu artist and musician. Mayunkiki’s Sikuma 2023 consists of a series of posters containing both personal and archival images with texts written by the artist. The work’s title, ‘Sikuma’, means border or boundary in the Ainu language. Drawing on her personal experiences, Mayunkiki explores various kinds of boundaries set either by society or by herself. As she describes, ‘by verbalising the margins that I feel within myself’, Mayunkiki asks where the boundary begins and ends: Is the categorical understanding of an Ainu, which often paints a stereotypical or idealised image of the Indigenous community, always projected on to the artist by others? Or does the artist herself create a form of self-marginalisation? Such questions complicate the binary logic of us/them.