Photographer Metka Miljavec.
Photographer Metka Miljavec.
Photographer Metka Miljavec.
Photographer Metka Miljavec.
Photographer Metka Miljavec.
Photographer Metka Miljavec.
Photographer Metka Miljavec.
Photographer Metka Miljavec.
Photographer Metka Miljavec.
Photographer Metka Miljavec.

Un campo dove crescono anche le ortiche (A field where nettles also grow)

Hybridizaction 3


Saturday, August 8, 1998
Znojle (SLO), Transverzala Utrinkov.

Duration 4 hours.

Znojle is a small village in northern Slovenia. it is inhabited only by a few souls and the houses are mostly dilapidated. The landscape leads the visitor back to the last century. Nettles everywhere; they grow tall and surround the houses.
An uncultivated field is said to be abandoned to the nettles … and I wanted to redeem the negative image that the vegetable transferred to the place.

On the map of the village I have identified ten points, like chakras. In each of these places I looked for nettle, I offered my blood and I received its sap. Suddenly Znojle is repopulated and takes shape and the body is a village.

The viewer has a map in his hand that guides him to discover a place that is neither a village nor a body. Ten signs mark the places of action.