Sonny is an attempt at an anthropological investigation of a specific phenomenon in performative form. It is a startling fascination with images and stories of sworn virgins or "virginas" from the remote parts of Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Metohija. It is a hole in the system, which maintains that same system. It is drag in relation to the question of survival in a man's world that asks us what world we live in.
A woman is a sack made to endure. – the Kanun, the Code of Lekë Dukagjini from the Middle Ages, north Albania and Kosovo
#Unwanted. That’s a common girl name in our Montenegro. – a Women's Rights Centre poster of a campaign against selective abortion practice, Montenegro, 2017
Montenegro's last "virgina" has died. Her last wish was for her family-grave epitaph to describe her as her father's only surviving son. – Blic, 2 August 2016
Sonny! – says a close relative when I visit her in Montenegro.
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