This lecture is based on the exhibition, Facts and Fabulations, which is currently on at Iyatsiba Lab. The exhibition Facts and Fabulations is the outcome of a Digital Curatorial Fellowship from the New Archival Visions Programme at the UWC Centre for Humanities Research. The project demonstrates how academic research can become a public, accessible, and participatory cultural experience. The exhibition offers a slower, more reflective encounter with history, countering the rapid consumption of images and information today. Ultimately, the project explores how truth is shaped, remembered, and experienced, and how space and time might be reopened for deeper engagement with the past.