Rebecca Kailola-Simons is a photographic artist, educator and editor based in the Netherlands. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between memory, history, and constructed narratives through photography, video, and installation.

Her ongoing artistic research project, Batu Bicara, revisits Moluccan-Dutch colonial history through documentary storytelling, family history, archival research, and myth.  The project explores the tension between official histories and more relational ways of carrying memory through family that extends beyond bloodlines, while also questioning the Western impulse to document, classify and archive.