Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic is a performing artist born in Serbia but resides in New York. Abramovic in her work explores the relationship between the performer and the audience. She tests the limits of the body and the possibilities of the human mind. Mariana Abramovic started with her career as a performing artist in the seventies and is still active in the Avant Garde.
Abramovic’s work usually explores the extreme state of a human mind. Both mental and physical activity. The Human Body has always been her medium and subject. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her body. The particular mixture of struggling and self inflicted violence has been the contradiction of her childhood. Though very personal, Abramovic’s art spoke to a generation which was undergoing the tightening control of the communist party in Yugoslavia.
The earlier Artwork which inspired many women and was a revealing moment about the truth of the society were the Rhythm. The most famous acts of the Rhythm series were the Rhythm 10, Rhythm 5 and Rhythm 0.
Mariana re-evokes the energy of extreme body pain. Burning the communist star represents a physical and mental purification from the communism which was in Yugoslavia while she was growing up. She wants to set herself free from the torture, the misery she had while growing up as a kid because of her parents who both were at a high post in the communist party.