Abstract
This article explores the installation Documentation by the artist Parastou Forouhar as an (un)sighted migratory archive of memory and forgetting. Operating in the liminal zone between a personal archive and a resourceful public space of memory and resistance, Documentation records in numerous post-produced letters, documents and reports the assassination of the artist’s parents and her efforts to seek justice. Exploring the archive’s transformation into an installation, the article discusses its operationality as an archive-as-activist art with its fractured and performative nature, and draws critical attention to the question of how its borders are manifested in the form of resistance and failure.
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