From the beginning of her career, spanning over four decades, Marina Abramović has pioneered performance art, creating some of the form’s most important early work. The body has always been both Abramović’s subject and medium. Exploring her physical and mental limits in works that ritualize the simple actions of everyday life, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. She has explored new notions of identity by bringing in the participation of observers and highlighting the role of the public. Abramović’s works deal the endless possibilities of the human mind and the question of man’s confrontation with the unknown, while tirelessly exploring the relationship between the artist and the audience.