Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

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Fittingly blurring the lines between artist and art, this book acts as a keystone in the life of one of the most important performance artists in the world. In one “durational” performance, she declared herself an object and endured crazed audience members cutting her.

This book, as well as Marina’s career, is a testament to her unbelievable ability to push her body to its limits, and using her own physicality to connect with her audience. Their amazing love story and their good looks had brought them together—­sex had brought them together—­but so many things drove them apart. From her early childhood, she explains her upbringing and really installs a feeling of sympathy from the word go. Combining brand-new interviews, never-before-seen images and fascinating ephemera from her personal archives, this book creates a visual landscape of the artist's personal and artistic life.But now it feels like, if I have to wait until next year anyways, why bother starting any of the other books? Art and life are fundamentally inextricable concepts to her, which she explores throughout her career in a series of daring, unconventional performance pieces, which are chronicled in this book with vividly descriptive imagery.

Abramovic founded the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), a platform for immaterial and long durational work to create new possibilities for collaboration among thinkers of all fields. Walk Through Walls spans five glorious decades in the life of one of the most distinguished artists in the world. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.I always remember the communal spaces—­they would be painted this dirty green color, and there were these naked bulbs that gave off a gray light that kind of shadowed the eyes. Later I discovered it had once belonged to wealthy Jews, and had been confiscated during the Nazi occupation. My father, as I said, was a very handsome man, with a strong, stern face and a thick, powerful-­looking head of hair. I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me. Likewise, although Abramović is famous and highly visible (Time magazine named her one of the world’s 100 most influential people, alongside Barack Obama and Pope Francis), she is aware that her investigation into all the dimensions of presence requires the absence of her own ego.

At first glance Marina Abramović has made a career from doing the opposite of Elena Ferrante, whose identity, as we all know, has been investigated by a journalist. I really need to read more of those prize winners – obviously any prize for female authors is right up my alley. Some of her best-known and most radical works appear alongside new works created especially for the exhibition. For access to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating rows A to C and wheelchair spaces in the Front Stalls, please enter via the Artists' Entrance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road (Level 1). I felt displaced and I probably thought that if I walked, it meant I would have to go away again somewhere.The RA is a unique institution, an independent charity with a mission to be a clear, strong voice for art and artists, where art is made, exhibited and debated. The Museum of Modern Love is already on my TBR so I think I’ll stick with reading that first, but I’ll definitely keep this in mind if I love MoML. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. My father was appointed to Marshal Tito’s elite guard; my mother directed an institute that supervised historic monuments and acquired artwork for public buildings.