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I am an artist, curator and scholar committed to critical engagement with colonial archives and collections, specifically those holding strands of Khoekhoe pasts. Bringing intangible and neglected histories into view is a fundamental motivation for my work. My research aims to contribute to a radical reconsideration of colonial archives and museum collections – especially by finding ways to release archives hold over our imaginations when we narrate the past, as well as how they might shape the future I obtained a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Cape Town, where I also worked at the Michaelis School of Fine Art and the Centre for Curating the Archive. I curated Under Cover of Darkness, an exhibition and project concerned with the history of women in servitude, especially slavery, in Cape Town.