She has been researching modern and contemporary South African art since the late 1990s, specialising in the story of artists in
exile during Apartheid and their cultural interactions with the Black Diaspora in France and England.
The idea of returning home tells the various stories
during the
Apartheid struggle of men who had left their family homes in search of labor, migrating to the mines or cities, or even political
exiles who had taken a pact to leave the shores of South Africa as a means to take up arms against a brutalist regime.