In Becoming South Sudan, Echeverría turns to a different form of representation by exploring the act of wearing as a mode of becoming, self-determination and self-reflection. Through powerful, sometimes confrontational portraits, Echeverría captures the gaze of individuals at a pivotal time in 2011, when the Republic of South Sudan finally gained Independence after decades of war. Interested in the historical moment of the birth of a country, the artist explored the representational constructs of what it meant to suddenly become a Nation State and unite sixty-nine tribes under a national ethos.