Dr Laura de Harde is an artist, researcher, and curator based in Johannesburg, South Africa.She is an Associate Researcher at the School of the Arts, University of Pretoria and shemanagestheJoburg-basedcontemporary African Art gallery, Guns & Rain.Her doctoral and postdoctoral research focussed on uncovering marginalized contributions to knowledge production, drawing on archival and museum collections as her primary site of inquiry. Shehas Has held two solo exhibitions at theDitsong National Museum of Cultural History(2022) and the Swakopmund Museum(2024), her articles have been published in journals and she was responsible for the editing and production of an award-winning publication(2022).