MARINA ABRAMOVIC

From the very get-go, Marina Abramović opted to use her own body as the object of her art, testing the limits of mental and physical endurance. Her performances and video installations aim at exploring the capabilities and boundaries of resistance: the body is the object and subject of her studies, it’s used as a tool to convey a message to the viewers, to communicate and absorb energy. Thus, the artist’s body is a metaphor and symbol of various realities and ethics.
Marina Abramović, recognized as one of the leading international practitioners of performance art, has always documented her performances throughout the years via videos and photographs. For Digital Life 2, Abramović will present a photo mural from her 2004 performance in Rome, The Biography.

Marina Abramovic,́ Serbian conceptual artist, has been a pioneer of performance art since the early 70s. Some of her more noteworthy installations: Bed from Mineral Room in 1994 and Cleaning that Mirror in 1995. Her works have been featured in important international festivals such as Documenta in Kassel, 1978, 1982, 1992 and the Venice Biennale in 1997 where she was awarded the Golden Lion for Balkan Baroque. In 2004, at the Romaeuropa Festival she presented, together with director Michael Laub, The Biography for the first time ever. In 2010 her extreme performance, The artist is present, was featured at New York’sMoMa.

courtesy of Marina Abramović Archive