Istanbul’s Sakip Sabanci Museum hosts a major retrospective of world renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic
The performance artist Marina Abramovic presents her exhibition called Flux at Akbank Sanat in Istanbul’s Beyoglu district on January 31, 2020.
It is a mesmerising scene that continues on a loop. It can be read simply as a document of a domestic disturbance, or an allegory of a romance gone wrong. It could also be a metaphor for gender relations or something entirely different. The artist was present at the opening of her exhibition in late January, and her mood was infectious. After playfully chiding the press for being “too serious”, she decided to tell a variant on the lightbulb joke. “How many performance artists does it take to fix a light on the wall?” she asked the crowd. The crowd erupted into laughter when she answered “I don’t know. I was there only [for] six hours.
He explains the reason for his query: “[F]or the performer, the medium is his or her body. That is what gives this art its immediacy and unpredictability.” Abramovic rose to fame in the 1970s in which she used her body in the context of the art space, putting herself in hazardous conditions. For example, she first performed herpiece at the Edinburgh Festival in 1973 . She would pick up a knife, “stab in between the fingers of my left hand as fast as possible” and change the knife when she cut herself. This went on for one hour.
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