Since 2020, Michelle Piergoelam has been working on the project 'The Untangled Tales', in which she investigates which intangible and tangible elements could offer hope, strength, and resilience to enslaved people during the period of slavery. Afterward, she began delving more intensively into her own family history, noticing that the lives of her ancestors were primarily recorded administratively: reduced to numbers, dates, and contract terms. However, little is known about the personal lives, emotions, dreams, and interpersonal relationships of indentured laborers. This underexposed human aspect forms the core of her new research project 'Kantraki', through which she aims to give them a face as individuals with desires and inner worlds. The project represents a new step in Piergolam's practice: her themes are shifting from symbolic representation to direct, biographical, and archival research. Parallel to this, she is developing visual work in which archival material, family stories, and imagination converge. The ultimate goal is to make an underexposed history visible and tangible to a broad audience, without falling into historical romanticization. In this way, the project is not only an artistic deepening of her practice, but also a contribution to the societal conversation about colonial history and intergenerational impact.