Pamatyti bylų ūkį: Kęstučio Grigaliūno projektas "Apie meilę" ; Looking at the scriptural economy o f the atrocity archive: about love by Kęstutis Grigaliūnas
At the moment of their production Soviet atrocity/repression archives were not intended to be watched at. When their initial status is being subverted, one cannot but ask: what does it mean not only to read these archives, but also to make them visible? What does it mean to look at them and how is the archive's visuality to be approached and handled? The article scrutinises the second book in the framework o f a project About Love by artist Kęstutis Grigaliūnas. The book is a collection o f 130 silk prints, the material from files o f 130 victims o f political persecution, killed in Tuskulėnai estate (Vilnius) in 19 4 4 -19 4 7 . The main aim o f the paper is to show how the visualisation of the atrocity archive, the very scopic regime and its alteration participate in the subversion o f the archive and in the creation o f new orders o f historical memory. This kind o f de- and re-archiving relies on the " indexical power" o f the photographic image as an intermediary stage in the production o f silk prints. Montage techniques introduced in About Love strengthen and multiply indexicality effects in various ways, thus complementing the strategy o f making the trauma archive visible, despite that initially it was deprived o f presence in the visual sphere.