Notes under (her) cheekbones
The piece is a sketch for an artistic intervention in the Dotršćina, Zagreb memorial park. During the Second World War, the Ustasha regime used this location for the mass killing of anti-fascists, Serbs, Jews and other victims of terror. Scientific research determined about 7,000 victims, and that number is not final. The fundamental goal is to return the memorial area of the park to the collective memory, through the contemporary art interventions, organized every year on the World Day of Peace (September 21).
Although my project was not selected that year, I made a land art intervention at the beginning of spring. In it, I deal with signs that are naturally formed in the bark of forest trees. I painted a row of young trees with beetroot juice and found features on them that I attributed to women. Thus, the forest indirectly evoked the memory of the young and brave women who died here, and their names remained, as in everything, behind the dominance of the male gender.