Kitso Lelliott is preoccupied with enunciations that emerge from spaces beyond epistemic power and with the crises that such epistemically disobedient articulations provoke within hegemonic structures. Her work interrogates the ‘real’ as it is shaped by contesting epistemologies, their narratives, and the forms these took across the Atlantic during the formative episode that defined the modern age. It is an enactment of enunciating from elision and from the historically subjugated subjectivities, privileging South–South relations that remain in dialogue with, yet imaginatively and epistemologically, unmediated by the Global North.