They walked the Great Wall of China each from one end to meet in the middle to break up. In 1988, they ended their 12 years work and love relationship with a riviting, epic last performance: ‘The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk’. Abramovic breaks into tears when an old acquaintance takes a seat in front of her. For her MoMA retrospective, during a period of three months, Abramovic shared a moment of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. It features a moving reunion moment which has more than 25 million views on YouTube. In 2010, she became known to a wide audience with a heartbreaking scene in ‘The Artist Is Present’, a documentary on her life and work. These performances made her well known in the art world. Towards the end of the performance someone actually placed the gun to her head. On a table Abramovic placed 72 objects (including a loaded gun) and the audience was invited to use these objects to their wishes on her. In ‘Rhythm 0’, the most extreme in the series, she wanted to find out how far the public would go. In ‘Rhythm 5’ she lost consciousness when she was laying at the centre of a burning star and two audience members removed her from the flames as she nearly suffocated. In the 1970s Abramovic did a series of performances, ‘Rhythms’, that nearly cost her her life. In her search for personal healing she is as fearless as in her extreme performances. The documentary follows the Serbian Performance artist on a spiritual journey through Brazil. “I was really concerned that she was going to die”, says Marco Del Fiol, director of ‘The Space in Between: Marina Abramovic and Brazil’.
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