Visitors invited to squeeze through naked models in Marina Abramović's new retrospective
For decades Abramović has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance. Now her work is being being showcased in the UK's first retrospective of the Serbian artist.
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00:28 What's new about this is that, of course, Marina will not be
00:32 performing those extremely demanding performances
00:35 herself anymore, but is handing the baton over, as it
00:39 were, to the next generation of young performance artists
00:43 who are re-performing her performances.
00:45 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:56 There are a lot of the key works are on display.
00:59 OK, it may not be the work itself.
01:01 It may be a video of the work or photos of the work,
01:03 but they do convey that sense of what
01:06 it was like for those works to occur
01:09 and how important they were to her
01:10 and how much she gave to her performances.
01:12 You can see she really puts her body on the line
01:15 in a lot of her works.
01:16 And that's what makes them so powerful.
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