How does a post-memory generation relate to the historical archive of previous generations? How to deal with the collective traumas, perceptions and memories embodied in the historical archives of the Liberations Struggles in Lusophone Africa and of the Portuguese Revolution? Rather than addressing trauma as a purely internal phenomenon, Carolina Rito explores the links between images and how history is built upon those links, rather than seeing narratives as self-contained speech. Violence is not shown in the images themselves but through the process of montage, where, as Walter Benjamin recalled, history breaks down into images, not stories. Which is why documentaries are modalities of fiction; they constitute a link between images, testimonies and traces of actions. For Rito, the curatorial process is understood as a means without an end, a mode of enquiry that suspends the institutionalisation of meaning within historical thinking and explores the gaps between meaning and signifier. The subject of Rito’s curatorial work is forms of oblivion—who wants who to forget what and why?