Marina Abramović
b. 1946, Serbian Performance Artist whose work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind
42, 2010
Performance documentation and video
Endurance as medium. Abramović sat motionless for 736 hours while strangers took turns staring into her eyes. The documentation captures something ineffable—connection, exhaustion, vulnerability. Art stripped to its rawest transaction.