Marina Abramovic and Ulay - No predicted end

Marina Abramović and Ulay met on November 30, 1975, their shared birthday, and became both partners and artistic collaborators. Together they created groundbreaking performances such as Relations in Space , in which they collided head-on for over an hour, Rest Energy , in which they balanced a bow with the arrowhead aimed at Marina's heart, and Nightsea Crossing , in which they sat in silence facing each other for seven hours, repeated 22 times.

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Their last performance in 1988 consisted of a 4000 km walk from opposite ends of the Great Wall of China, not to get married, as planned, but to get divorced.

After a touching reunion in The Artist is Present in 2010 and a subsequent conflict over rights, they met one last time, shortly before Ulay's death, for a conversation about their love and artistic legacy. This meeting became a final work of art, where the truth behind the masks was explored, not through pain, but in the light of death.

Author: Kasper Bech Dyg
Page count: 400
Publisher: Book Lab ApS
Language: English