Marina Abramovic is a Serbian artist known for performance art. She is sometimes described as the grandmother of performance art. Her work is often based on exploring the limits of the body and the endless possibilities of the mind. This can be seen through the themes of feminism, endurance and exhaustion. She is known for pushing the limits of what we conceive about the body, mind and traditional art.
I've found that her work is often closely connected to self-inflicted violence in some way - whether it be, cutting her skin hair or nails or physically and mentally draining herself. By doing this Abramovic highlights shunned elements of human physiology, by testing how vulnerable and aggressive humans' bodies and souls are naturally and in social situations.
Abvomavich‘s discoveries and creations using the body as a vessel to create another ramification to art itself is revolutionary and leads us to question where does art end and begin.