Apr 8, 2020
Balkan Baroque, Marina Abramović (1997)
Styled after the form of a triptych, videos of Abrahomić as a Janusian storyteller and her revolutionary parents flank the artist who sits atop a pile of bloodied bones. For six hours per day of the installation, she purifies them of tendon and gore as a personal ritual of mourning against the sociopolitical background of the Yugoslav Wars.
Three-channel video (color, sound), cow bones, copper sinks and tub filled with black water, bucket, soap, metal brush, dress stained with blood 24:47 min.
