Through the 1950s and 1960s, the Department of Tropical Studies (DTS) at the AA helped to shape a particular Western perception of the Global South that manifested in a certain approach to the arts: one which highlighted Western abstract expressionism, promoted primitivist approaches to African arts and marginalized non-Western artists collaborating with the DTS.

As Hardly Found seeks to project into the gaps left in the archive of the DTS in London and that of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, exploring the trajectories and interrelations that can be traced between the artists and architects in the orbit of those institutions.